This folder contains correspondence from or about employees and former or prospective employees. Included are three letters by Elbert A. Wilson, a chemist whom Edison was interested in hiring, and a letter by former employee Owen J. Conley.
Approximately 30 percent of the documents have been selected. Among the unselected items are requests for employment at the West Orange laboratory, an offer to represent Edison at the Paris Exposition of 1900, and a letter recommending a field geologist for Edison's New Mexican mining endeavor.
[D0004AAA], Letter from William Simpkin to R L Taft, January 26th, 1900 1900-01-26