[LB054506], Letter from Thomas Maguire (Edison Employee) to Alfred Ord Tate, December 8th, 1891
https://edisondigital.rutgers.edu/document/LB054506
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December 8, 1891. A. O. Tate, Esq., Edison Building, Broad St., New York City. Dear Sir:- In regard to the packing of musical records, we have now obtained a supply of the wooden cylindrical boxes, cotton batting etc., and our method of packing will be changed gradually. We have still on hand nearly a thousand of the paste-board boxes and we will use up these before changing over completely to the new method. The following is an extract from a letter under date Nov. 25th of the Montana Phonograph Co., referring to the new method of packing: “We think this a much better way to pack them, as it saves a great deal in weight, as well as doing away with the liability of having them (cylinders) broken and scratched.” Yours truly, Thomas Maguire