[LB016313], Letter from Samuel Insull to John Norcross Culbertson, May 13th, 1883
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- Title
- [LB016313], Letter from Samuel Insull to John Norcross Culbertson, May 13th, 1883
- Editor's Notes
- I am in receipt of your favor of the 8th. inst., and in reply would beg to state that we are not at present in need of any assistants in the purely electrical department of our business. We are, however, just now developing the lighting of small towns throughout the United States by means of Mr. Edison's system and I think that in this connection we might find something for you that would eventually turn out very profitable. We have got a number of agents out in different states who form local companies for us and influence local capital to go into our business in competition with their local gas companies. As a rule we do not pay any salary for this work but allow our agents a liberal share of such stock and cash as our parent company receives for the license they give to the local company. If you were disposed to go into this business I should be happy to supply you with further information. Any assistance that I can render you in this connection I shall have the greater pleasure in doing so as I have a lively recollection of the kind manner in which you treated a number of our telephone men whom Mr. Edison sent to Antwerp in 1880 under arrangments with Mr. Hubbard. You may possibly remember my communicating with you at that time.
- Author
- Insull, Samuel
- Recipient
- Culbertson, John Norcross
- Date
- 1883-05-13
- Type
- Letter
- Folder ID
- LB016-F
- Microfilm ID
- 82:413
- Document ID
- LB016313
- Publisher
- Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
- Has Version
- Archive.org Viewer, Microfilm Series Reel 82
- License
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Item sets
- [LB016-F] LB-016 (1882, 1883)