[LB055099], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to John Brisben Walker, January 9th, 1892
https://edisondigital.rutgers.edu/document/LB055099
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January 9, 1892. J. Brisben Walker, Esq., The Cosmopolitan Magazine, Editorial Dep’t. New York City. Dear Sir:- Mr. Edison has read your letter of 4th instant and in reply has instructed me to inform you that he regrets he is unable to furnish you with a gun cotton engine. He says that to construct such as engine would require a considerable amount of experimenting, but that a good engineer ought to be able to design one. Some time ago Mr. Edison conducted at the Laboratory a few fundamental experiments on this direction but the experiments were never brought to a completion and had to be abandoned in favor of other important work which was more pressing. Yours truly, A. O. Tate Private Secretary, M.