This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the business of the Kinetoscope Exhibiting Co. Included are documents regarding the transfer of the company's interests to the personal control of its president, Samuel J. Tilden. There are also letters about the sale of prize-fight films.
Approximately 40 percent of the documents have been selected. The documents not selected concern Tilden's default on, and the subsequent protest of, a $500 promissory note given to Enoch J. Rector, vice president of the company, and to the Edison Manufacturing Co.
[D9617AAA], Letter from Samuel J Tilden to William Edgar Gilmore, February 1st, 1896 1896-02-01
[D9617AAB], Letter from J H Cox to William Edgar Gilmore, April 4th, 1896 1896-04-04
[D9617AAC], Letter from Samuel J Tilden to William Edgar Gilmore, April 4th, 1896 1896-04-04
[D9617AAD], Letter from Enoch J Rector to Edison Manufacturing Co, April 6th, 1896 1896-04-06
[D9617AAE], Letter from J H Cox to William Edgar Gilmore, April 8th, 1896 1896-04-08
[D9617AAF], Memorandum, Kinetoscope Exhibiting Co, 1896 1896-00-00