[D8905AJY], Letter from S. Elizabeth Adams to Thomas Alva Edison, December 3rd, 1889

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Title

[D8905AJY], Letter from S. Elizabeth Adams to Thomas Alva Edison, December 3rd, 1889

Editor's Notes

[This is enclosure to D8905AJX] The papers are talking about your inventerate hapit of smoking "Sometimes as many as 20 cigars a day." "Would stop if it hurt you, do not see that it does." Neither did Gen. Grant see it till it was too late! Permit a stranger to say that your keen, quick brain is of too much value to be thus abused.##Page after page could be written, and name after name cited to prove that the ablest chemists and physicians unite in the assertion that tobacco (the use of it) impairs the power of thought. But time is money. You would not read.. I venture to insert just one article taken from a recent paper. Will you not read at least halof the the 2d then half of the 3d column? Note Napoleon's experiments, and remember that two great men have recently gone to their graves from tobacco cancer.##Omit the use of tobacco in any form, and all other unnatural stimulants, for one week. Note the effect upon yourself.##Again I say, your brain is too strong, too useful. The world cannot afford to let you become the slave, and ultimately, the prey of so abject a vice. Stamp enclosed. Do drop a line to tell me that you will at least consider the subject, and greatly oblige Yours very truly, S. E. Adams

Date

1889-12-03

Type

Subject

Folder/Volume ID

D8905-F

Microfilm ID

125:520

Document ID

D8905AJY

Publisher

Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
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