[LB054254], Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to Chicago Edison Co, Frank Sanford Gorton, November 10th, 1891
https://edisondigital.rutgers.edu/document/LB054254
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November 10, 1891. F. S. Gerton, Esq., The Chicago Edison Company, Chicago, Illinois. My dear Gerton, Your letter of 2nd instant has been received. You do not grasp the meaning. It is not our intention to build a station as the points referred to, but we are making a determination for the future, so that what we do put in will match with the extended system ten years from now. I had supposed I had made my meaning clear before. I don’t want real estate now, but only desire to know the possibilities of getting it. Please do what I asked in my telegram so I can go ahead, and then when I am done you will see that my forethought is so long that it sags in the middle. Yours very truly, Thomas A. Edison