[LB058130], Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to North American Phonograph Co, Thomas R Lombard, September 20th, 1893
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Sept. 20th, '93 Thomas R. Lombard, Gen'l Manager, North American Phonograph Co., Chicago, Ill. My dear Lombard:-- This letter will be presented to you by Mr. Benjamin Ives Gilman, Curator of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, who visits Chicago for the purpose of securing phonographic records of the music of various semi-civilized or savage races now represented on the Midway Plaisance. Mr. Gilman wishes to obtain the loan of a phonograph for this purpose, and he is also desirous of obtaining some intelligent assistance in taking the records. I commend Mr. Gilman to your kind consideration and will appreciate any courtesies which you may extend to him. He has already conducted some interesting experiments with the Phonograph, the results of which have been published, and his work in this connection is undertaken solely in the interests of science. Yours very truly, Thomas A. Edison