These documents cover the years 1871-1886. Included is an 1871 agreement between George Little, a British inventor of an automatic telegraph system, and George Harrington, a financial supporter of Edison's automatic telegraph inventions. Also included are letters from Edison to his father Samuel Edison, laboratory associate Francis R. Upton, and journalist William A. Croffut. In addition, there is an incandescent lamp drawing by Edison from March 1886, along with an undated memorandum, probably by John F. Randolph, listing expenses for the central station at Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Two items were added in March 2014: (1) a draft agreement in Edison's hand, November 1902, giving the Stollwerck Bros., a chocolate manufacturing firm in Cologne, distribution rights in Germany for records and machines manufactured by the National Phonograph Co.; (2) an 1877 invitation to a surprise masquerade party for Alice Stilwell, the sister of Edison's first wife, Mary Stilwell Edison [formerly in the Robert Harned Collection].
[X128AA], Agreement, George Little, George Harrington, September 22nd, 1871 1871-09-22
[X128AAA], Agreement, George Little, George Harrington, October 7th, 1871 1871-10-07
[X128AB1], Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to William Augustus Croffut, April 6th, 1878 1878-04-06
[X128AB2], Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to Samuel Ogden Edison (Father), May 18th, 1878 1878-05-18
[X128AC], Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to Francis Robbins Upton, 1879 1879-00-00
[X128AD] Memorandum, 1883-1884 1883-1884
[X128AE], Technical Note, Thomas Alva Edison, March 11th, 1886 1886-03-11
[X128AF], Agreement, Stollwerck Bros, Thomas Alva Edison, November 7th, 1902 1902-11-07