The Thomas A. Edison Papers Digital Edition

This folder contains correspondence and other documents pertaining to the organization and management of Edison's British electric lighting companies. Included are letters relating to the Edison & Swan United Electric Light Co., Ltd.; Edison's Indian & Colonial Electric Co.; the Australasian Electric Light, Power & Storage Co.; and the Metropolitan Electric Supply Co., Ltd. Also included is a newspaper clipping regarding Edison's opinion of the electric lighting business in Great Britain. Among the correspondents are Waterhouse, Winterbotham & Harrison, Edison's British patent attorneys; Samuel Flood Page, secretary of the Edison & Swan company; and John B. Verity, a director of the Metropolitan company.

Approximately 60 percent of the documents have been selected. The following categories of documents have not been selected: letters of acknowledgement; meeting notices; other routine business correspondence; duplicate copies of selected documents; documents that duplicate information in selected material.