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[LB055099], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to John Brisben Walker, January 9th, 1892
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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.

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