[LB056576], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to Thomas Alva Edison, June 1st, 1892

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Title

[LB056576], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to Thomas Alva Edison, June 1st, 1892

Date

1892-06-01

Type

Folder/Volume ID

LB056-F

Microfilm ID

143:261

Document ID

LB056576

Publisher

Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
 

Transcription

June 1, 1892
Dear Mr. Edison,-
I enclose herewith a letter from the Chicago Central Phonograph Co. addressed to the N.A.P. Co., in regard to the sale of graphophones. The N.A.P. Co. has in store here about 3,000 graphophones complete, in addition to [which we?] have in stock 439 graphophones complete, which we took over from Hartford, together with parts which, when assembled would make up 75 or 100 more.
There is no doubt that the N.A.P. Co, before a great while will be able to sell these instruments, but Mr. Bush is not sure that we can supply cylinders for them, owing to the fact that the graphophone people patented the cylinder which is now used. It would, of course, be difficult to put the machine out if we were unable to furnish supplies. Mr. Bush has asked me if we could take care of this point, and I told him I would see what could be done. When the time comes will you, if necessary, give us cylinder that we can use by those graphophones? The sale of them would bring in upwards of a quarter of a million of dollars between the Phonograph Works and the [illegible] Co.
Yours truly,
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