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<t Silver Plume Reduction Co.,

Silver Plume, Colo.

Balla?tAf iou are prohahly .aware . Ur. Edison applied for

patent on mo the. 3 and means of treating ores. xhis ^ tl0n that .as covered in the arrangement „ith the late Ur.

f0rd‘ The application for patent is pending in the Patent

Office, and the examiner has required that it he split up into

aivl.ioM.^ ^ 8oioB to a„ aaaltio»al 'hloh

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h«inE used. Mr. Edison is rather desirous whlch this inven .on think that your associates

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■yours v«.v>v truly.

Assistant to Mr. Edison.

March. 13, 1910.

Mr. A. I. Clymer.

Man Wert, Ohio.

My dear Mr. Clymer:

Your letter of the 4th inBtant regarding tha Shares of stock which you own of the Bdi-soo Storage Battery Company received.

On account of my recent f ire I. am not abl<t to impair my working- capital just at present, hy buying back the aharea.

Yours very truly.

0

March 13th. 1916,

8S?lte„?om*,any of America. Bloomfield, N. j.

Replying to. your favor of the eighth instant. I beg to say that there are two Benzol Plante at the Qambria Steel Com- P-y’s works, one of these plants is ov,ned by me and the other by the Cambria Steel Company themselves.

At both plants the crude Naphthaline is being collected but no sublimer has yet been installed, although I intend to in¬ stall one for my plant later.

At my Benzol plant at Woodward, Ala. we have put up a sublimer and have been selling a considerable quantity of sublimed Naphthaline to the American Oil & supply Company of Newark.

Bo you care to buy crude Naphthaline on its Naphthaline contents , which are readily sublimable and made pure.

Yours vory truly,

March 13th . 1916

She Engineering Magazine,

340 Nassau Street,

Hew York City.

Gentlemen:

Your favor of the 0th instant has been received. In my opinion, the bill introduced by Congressman Tavener is based on a fallacy. It 1. an attempt to prevent effic¬ iency. and would be disastrous to Labor and to the public .

She worst enemy of all the Workers is an ineffic¬ iently managed shop, and yet the Labor leaders cannot com- „.b.nd th. fact. - po..lbl» »•«*»» 11 “ “ "en“1

processes of a primary character.

There are many ways whereby Labor leaders can topvovc conditions bp l,5islatlo». bnt this bill of Con. „oocmnn Tavener is not one of them-

torch 13th.

Si s0hjLi Guenther,

MitchiH^°r°afyo«ue,

Dear Sir:

y that x expect to continue tha O-olio kcih after tta oloje 8 „

encouragement of the i(11, e war. I think the

M“ for Preparedness - ” ^ le ••••»-

—..Mker'e^^r::!^1"

**“ — —» C^tTu’Ti".00* 1"'

Youxs very truly,

15

March 13th. 1916.

Mr. YJalter D'A. Ryan,

% The Blackstone,

Michigan Boulevard,

Chicago, Ill.

Dear Ur. Ryan;-'

I received your favor of the fourth in¬ stant. and am glad to learn that you liked the phono¬ graph and records. 1 trust the music v.ill he as great a source of enjoyment to you and your wife as it is

The set of exposition views which you so kindly sent me a few weeks ago came to hand. They are certainly very beautiful and have given us all a great deal of pleasure.

My wife joins me in kina regards to you and

Mr 8 . Ryan.

Yours very truly ,

March 15 th. 1916.

Mr. John Bacon, Jr.,

Edison Benzol Plant,

Johnstown, Pa.

Bear £ ir :

We are having a dispute with J. 1. Morgan & Company, to whom we sold the toluol from the Johnstown plant for one year. 5!hey want. to substantiate our statement that the plant w*e put in operation February 22nd . 1916 . Mr.' Mason says this was the date of actual starting uP of the plant. *ou were present and helped to install and start the plant, and if the date above stated is correct, will you please go before a notary Public and make the affidavit enclosed and return it to mo by next -il. Please put a special delivery stamp on it.

Please be sure to have the notary Public put his seal

on the paper.

yours very tr’jly.

£

ABC. 18 taut to Mr. t&teon.

Enclosure .

March 16th. 1916.

The Encyclopaedia Britannioa Corporation 120 West 32nd Street,

Hew York City.

Attention of Mr. William Patten.

Bear Mr. Patten:

I am in receipt of your favor of the 13th instant, and in accordance with your instructions v.e have returned to your Corpora¬ tion the set of Encyclopaedia Britannioa sent to the laboratory here for photographic purposes.

I shall be glad tohave you acknowledge receipt of same upon its arrival.

Yours very truly,

listant to Ur. Edison.

Mr. H. II. Hanna, President,

The Product Sales Company,

Equitable Building,

Baltimore, Md.

Bear’ Sir :

Your favor of the 13th instunt has been received, end I beg to thank you for your kindness in sending me a copy of your previous letter of February 26th.

Both these letters have been brought to Mr. Edison' b attention, and he sjays he will be glad to see samples of the decomposed Feldspar.

Just at present, he is not in position to decide definitely as to his requirements for Potash spar, as he is j

currying on a line of experiment covering his process for extracting Potash. However, we shall keep your letters on file for future reference as he ge.ts further along.

Yours very truly,

t-

nsaistaut to Mr. Edison. j

March 16th. 1916.

Mr. F. H. McCormick,

Williamsport, Pa.

Pear Sir :

Your favor of the seventh instant to Mr. Edison was received. He has been extremely busy the last few weeks on some special investigations that have taken his entire time and attention. However, he has now hod on op¬ portunity of reading your letter and looking over the statements in regard to the history of the Edison plant at Sunbury, Pa.

He wishes me to say that as far as he can re¬ member your statements are correct.

I have not returned the copy of the statement attached to your letter, and if you have no objection I would like to keep it. X am one of the old "boys" and would like to have this to add to my papers .

Yours srery truly.

Assistant to Mr. Edison.

March 16th. 1916,

Mitsui & Company, limited,

26 Madison Avenue,

Mew York City.

Attention of Mr. Homura.

Your favor of the tenth instant enclosing copy of a letter from the Germania Hosiery MillB was received- I have shown same to Mr. Edison.

He says he does not understand the results stated in the Germania letter. Qur Aniline Oil is the same at all times, and has been ever sinoe we commenced to make it. In order to get the black .color, the Germania Hosiery Mills must be using some chemical that lias changed in its nature .

For the information of the GermaniaHosiery Mills, Mr. Edison wishes to call their attention to the fact that if their ventilation is had or the rooms too warm thd Aniline vapor will os.use the lips of the workmen to turn blue. All Chemical works making Aniline Oil furnish their men with a change of clothing, so that they never go home in the clothing they wear in the Aniline Oil plant. The men are also compelled to wash their hands thorough¬ ly before eating lunch.

All plants making Aniline Oil have trouble with the poi¬ soning of their men in summer, because the vapor of Aniline comes off the Oil very strong when the temperature is high. Mr. Edison recommends that the dye room be kept as cold ss possible and well ventilated.

Yours very truly.

Assistant to Mr. Edison.,

March 17th. 1916,

.'he Bobbe-Merrill Company,

idianapolie, Ind,

Your favor of the ninth in¬ stant to Mr. Edison, together v.ith the complimentary copy of "Creation of Wealth" have ho on reoeivea and handed to him.

He wishes us to write in ack¬ nowledgment and to thank you for your

>f the hook, which Florida for read-

letter and for the copy he will take with him t<

Yours very truly,

Edison laboratory.

Mardh 17, 1916.

The Arthur H. Clark Ctengmny ,

Caxton building, Cleveland, Ohio.

Gentlemen

Bnclosed is check Ho. 17, 117, aiaquat #46.50, for which kindly ship to Mr. Thomas A. Edison, Laboratory. . West Orange, Hew Jersey,

Journal of the Chemical Society 1904-19i4, iac, , 11 years complete, in parta ae issued,

as referred to in your letter oi March 13th, sending ub receipted bill therefor.

fours very truly.

Assistant Secretary.

March 16th.

E. E. Dickinson & Cb. Inc.,

EBsex, Conn.

Gentlemen :

Replying to your favor of the 14th instant let me say that Mr. V. 1.

Kinit is an excellent chemist, hut I fear that ho might not he able to satisfy you in the designing of a commercial manu¬ facturing plant. I believe he aid some de¬ signing for the Butterworth-JudBon Company, 61 Wall Street. Mew York City, manufacturers of acid and chemicals. As *hey have had more experience ..with him than I have had,

you might write to them. — - -

Yours very tnily.

Your favor of the 14th instant in regard to Feld¬ spar has been received. It is quite true that Mr. Edison is interested in Feldspar having a high Potash content. H<

to use about two carloads a week of Feldspar uaranteed to contain at least 13.551, Potash,

, the price is right. He is not. and

would not be, interested in securing any property contain¬ ing Feldspar- He is already the owner of a vast acreage containing Feldspar, but does not care to go into the min¬ ing businees.

If you have any good Potash Feldspar to offer, we shall be pleased to hear from you with analyses and

Yours very truly,

torch 16th. 1916,

«■ • a. ii.. uay, i66 Albany Avenue,

to your fa vo]

let. me a ay that I have just completed i indicator for the Uavy. This de- ) tost at the present. It is not my to charge the Government for it. If should fall down in performance vou

*nd probably get paid for

very truly,

1 -vtik voa to kindly pardon the delay in replying to

fevo- 'r'f the 2'jth- ultimo. 1 have been very busy on a ul :1k. of ins tigation, which has held my attention from icon ! o v-veni-y hours a day.

7 t-X so delayed answering your letter for a few ^fys

■ w. nvflar to find out whether I oan obtain the Benzol ZM to manufaoture the additional quantity of Phenol that ^matters stand at the present time I bare only ,-«o'cd for sufficient Benzol to manufacture Jh® of covered by all my contracts, and before obligat-

ovself to'deliver further quantities X should want to make of' having contracted for the necessary raw .material.

-I....- ,;t gt-ig S S.SSX*K'

>U "1 B»«ol If io'oSwiSt »n alaitlon.1 q»a»-

fS^SS «S.000 PO«M. per .oath tor oae

r from iiay let, 1916 at 70^ per pound.

X shall be glad • t be arrived at.

Respectfully

* . .

March. 17th. 1916

Butterworth- Judson Company, 61 Wall Street,

flew York City.

attention of Mr. J. a. Durkin, Vice President.

Gentlemen:

I must proteet most emphatically upi ship Mixed Acids in accordance with the contri with you. This contract was the basis of proi line Plant, and I made my contracts with cust( I must have the full quantity of Mixed Aoids i my contraot with you or I shall be unable to c thereby be liable to suits for di- mages.

You are about 116 tone- behind on yoi and about the same quantity on February deliv< month you have only shipped us I hai provide aoid from elsewhere to 'fill the gap, f. of your delay in shipping this month it will < a car of aoid from your works to mine so as tc time enough to prevent shutting down the plrnl Department is able to accomplish (. t '.'y the - y; large Bum of money.

your , shipr month.

5 arrears are it- aB a formal re ipril , dividing lipped respect?. :

please

month

This is a very serious r.iatt< nphasis I can express in wri.H

. Q ^4 — *-~

Si-

Clarence Dillon, Esq., / 4 to. 1. Bead & Company, MasBau & Cedar Streets, Mew York City.

I am very glad to learn that you have been able to arrange with your people for the continuance of my ?er.zol contract, on the basis of 1,000 gallons per day for one year after the close the present rcMiaot. at 6? i/2 4 P« Kalion,

March 17th. 1916

March 17th.

Clarence Dillon. Esq..

% Via. A. Head L Company. Nassau & Cedar Streets, New York City.

Dear Mr. Dillon:

1 am very glad to learn that you have been able to a nge v.ith your people for the continuance, of ray o* contract, on the basis of

1,000 gallons pe'- .. for one your 'ft or the close

of th; ^recent . «ct, at t. . . • f.ailon.

Milv.’--.

.'ft

o Hr :ordin

Attention of Mr. Shunzo Takaki .

Gentlemen;

, o,-, „Y2ur £avor of the 0th instant enclosing letter of Amer-

lean Oil & Supply Company in regard to shipments of naphthaline "was received.

Unfortunately, as. we'were new in the naphthaline busi¬ ness, there were some mistakes made in the first few shipments, and we were obliged to adjust matters by making: the allowances stated in the letter of the American Oil & Supply Company of

It was also understood when the sales of naphthaline were made that the price was P. 0. B. Kewark, so their charging us back with the freight is correct. The discount of lj£ has al¬ ways been understood in their dealings with us, as they usually discount their bills unless otherwise understood.

You say in your letter that the amount of the Woodward Iron Company's bill is exactly the same as our bill to the Ameri¬ can Oil & Supply Company. I do not quite see how that can be, be¬ cause one half of these shipments of naphthaline belongs to V.'o-od- ward Iron Company, and the other half to the joint account o'£ Mitsui & Company, limited and Thomas A. Edison in joint ae<\0Unt. Therefore, although you bill the entire shipment to American Oil & Supply Company, the bill of 7/ oodward Iron Company coders only about one half the amount. The other half belongs to, our joint account, although, of course, there is to be ohargp/d to our joint account the bill of the Woodward lion Company for the royalty of 1 1/4 4 per pound we pay to them.

You should, therefore, enter against the V.'oodward Iron Company’s account thoir proportion of the deductions made by American Oil & Supply Company and deduct the same when you remit the Woodward Iron Company's share to >l8 ,

I will write to the Woo4wara iron Company and explain to them. I return the letter and c.heok stub of American Oil & Sup¬ ply Company.

Years very truly,

■ mm.,-.

SECRETARY.

Enc .

March. 18th. 1916.

J . P . Morgan '& Company , Export Department,

23 Wall Street,

Hew York City.

Gentlemen:

Your letter o f the 8th instant has heen received. As far as the date upon which we began to operate the plant at Johnstown is concerned, this is a matter which you can readily verify if you de¬ sire. The fact is that it was started on February 22, 1915 and has been in active operation ever since, the working force consisting most of the time of a superintendent, about five day operatives and the same number of night operatives; at the beginning the force was some¬ what larger than this.

As to your statement that X did not deliver approximately the amount of toluol which I agreed to deliver, I would efW all* times Sid hot agree to deliver any specified amount. In fact, at all times I refused to agree to anything of the kind. At the time the contract was entered into, the plant was in course of erection and no one could possibly predict in advance how much toluol couia be producea from the gases which were to be treated. I simply agreed B«tfor "the whole of the toluol of 98 fc purity produced from this plant, for a period of one year after the plant is in operation . X have al¬ ready delivered to you the greater part of this amount and am await- inn- Rhiivnine facilities for the remainder, as per my letter of March 4th, 1916. The year in question began February 22, 1915 and. ended at midnight February 22, 1916.

I cannot see that the capacity of the plant at the present time has anv relevance to the subject, nor is its capacity during the year in Question, except as regards the addi^°?c.!.e^0^e^ letter of February 1916. Tnis addition consisted of an addition¬ al still for refining "benzol and toluol, and it was found possible to r hft?e and install this as a part of the original installation of the plant! so that instead of beginning to operate the addition to the ■nlant about 40 days after the dots approximated for starting the

Sthe operation of the addition actuany began at the same time +he rest of the plant. The capacity of the plant was at all times sufficient to takl ca!e of all the gases which I had contracted for.

in fact all of such gaBes were treated, and you have had ail the 98$ toluol produoed therefrom during year in question.

As regards your suggeBtion that deliveries may be continued, . let me say that I have fulfilled my contract fully and completely bo h

ilililifililir

n ™Jn+£h6 Camb^iaiSteel Company for the purpose of charging me with riKhem)UP°? &^11tolu?1 Produced, in accordance with my contract tn+v,nhp V. t?0l?8n h0rewith a copy of my letter of March 10 1916

TQifihe-fv^ ambria Steel Company and their reply thereto dated March 1? 1916, from which you will see that the shipments shown in their letter with the shipments of toluol (lots #1 to 8) which have been hilled by me to His Britannic Majesty's Government through mont’ C°?pfny' and 10 are ready and awaiting ship¬

ment, but have not been billed out as yet. a word of explanation is necessary in regard to the item of 23 gallons which will be noted in the list contained in the letter from the Cambria Steel Company. Through a clerical error, on the first shipment of toluol, the Cambria oteal Company charged me with a royalty on only 2916 gallons. This error was not noticed until the month of July when they rendered me a separate bill for the royalty on 23 gallons.

March 17th. 1916,

Mr. Ji.G.Aoos- Carmen Stree- Havana, Cuba.

reaches IfewYork? ’ v/e^eha ??d?ms ^>elia Galli-curci record of her voice? make a Si

wiJl tahe up with vou rz is Batisfactorv we

proposition: y°U the matt0r of a business

Jort. pUaS”,^"” =*Ul-C«roI co„„ ,0

iiS% •

Mr. Frank P. Holland,

Holland's Magazine,

Dallas, Texas.

Dear Sir:

I have received an appeal from Mr.

C. F . Lehmann for a contribution towards a home for superanuated writers of the press and period¬ icals .

Unclosed herewith I take pleasure in sending my check for $50.00 for this fund. I would give more, but my big fire, while it did¬ n’t break lae, bent me considerably.

yours very truly,

c"..,

Enclosure .

Gas par ill a Inn, oa Grande, Fla.

85

March 17th. 191C

The Manchester Edison Society,

11, The Avenue,

lower Broughton,

Manchester, England.

Gentlemen:

* °Bxau “ne L0De aeiay that has taken place in replying to your esteemed favor of November 1st 1915 t have been exceedingly busy for the last few months on ’a

° f specia! investigation to which I have been obliged to devote my entire time and attention day and night, and

haI? obliSed t0 la* many matters ?hit

were not immediately pressing.

sent me, tion.

Allow me to thank you for the and to which I have listened v,

record you kindly ith much gratifica-

. . gives me pleasure to comply with your request

to become a Patron of your Society, and you have my permission to UBe my name as such. Allow me J - all its members a most prosperous

You will be glad to loan very long before your members wi ] 1 of some very fine music, as I have prove our methods of recording.

Yours verv

i that it will not be be able to obtain records boon working hard to im-

Murch 17th.

Mr. I’. E. Solman,

5 Arctic Street,

Worcester, Mass.

Dear Sir:

In reply to your favor of the 13th instant, let me say that Mr. E. G. ^cheson, the discoverer of carborundum was at one time in my employ as an experimenter. He made a lot of fusions by electricity in the course of his work. He afterward left me and continue these experiments on his own account. I think that it was about two or three years after this .that he discovered carborundum. He was experimenting to make diamonds. His actions, so far as I am concerned were honorable .

Yours v

rery trud;- ,

g w^“u,r. ?avor of the 20th. instant addressed to Mr. JEdison

v ! t218 mornin« *rid shOT’n t0 Mn just before he teft

h T?ry §lad ,lnd60d t0 hc-ve it coSe along today

ni£. mind Is now relieved on that subject. e

stated- in vr-irUin++r^ea Me £onflfm the purchase of Benzol' as ® , , rhi: _“f5-lT letifcr! from the Milwaukee Coke and Gas Com-

per%*T?on'V o 'V to June 30th, 1916 at 70^

Milw®ukn° Co>* li*‘iukeo • wi8< also any Benzol that the

;“r? ,;;nn '^aB Company can spare from May 1st to May 16th,

the Milwaukee Cake and Gas Company. K rom

Yours very truly,

fry -

Assistant to Mr. Edison.

101

llerch 21st. 1916,

llerck & Company 45 Park Place,

Hew York City.

Gentlemen ;

"n“ °‘k ,ou t0 tlM,» pardon tho delay In replying to poor favor of th. 21st ultl.o regarding p.r.ph.nyl.n.d la»l»» . ;,r

ha. h..n very hnoy ;„do.d th. last ,1* or ..von ,M

presBinp importance.

He wishea us to eny that we could, of course, refine our Paraphenylenedle.ino to oonfor. to ,h. sa.pl. ,ha, ,.« sent as p,t It ...Id so.ro.ly pay a. ... .. .ontr.ot.d «p to .tout

th. ll.lt o, our Production. ,„loh 1. us.d hy fur dyers. „ho .... to find our product satisfactory for their purpose.

Yours very truly,

Edison Laboratory.

106

March 21st. 1916.

Mr. Arthur Williams, President,

The American Museum of Safety,

IB West 24th Street, hew York City.

Dear Mr. Williams:

I am surely in sympathy with the work of the Museum of Safety.

Anything that will prevent accident means not only protection to a man ana his family, hut to the firm -that employs him and to the state and the nation. If a man 1b a skilled mechanic, to injure his effectiveness or to entirely remove him frequently means the upsetting of an entire establishment, or at least a lack of harmonious work, in addition to the loss to the community.

If the City of Hew York or any other City can encourage a Museum of Safety in any way, it sure-

1 advancement for our communit' Yours very truly ,

^cAvocrr

Street,

Cel.

Your recent letters end records hand, and have been brought to Mr. Miron! tlon* He requests us to say that he has 1 to the violin records, as to which he says the recording apparatus you have is not wa

■-t ten¬

oned

great volume and

Befc.

fine violin recor-:

apparatus , and

reoords by all the

Your

-atory

i, lurch 22na- 1916.

Detroit, Mich. Dear Mr . Heboid :

j I have received your favor of the 20th

I jnetant. Mr. Edison Ijrft for Florida yesterday,

[ the 21st instant, and I hno, that he is very de-

? s 1 roue of having Mr. Ford go down to Fort Myers

| and pay him a visit. I am sorry to note from

\ letter that there is a‘ shade of douht about it.

J hut hope that Mr. Ford will make an effort to

1 go a own and see them.

1 "yours very truly,

! tv ■ -

March 22nd. 1916,

IBnz & ilaumann , Inc . ,

17 Madison Avenue,

hew York City.

Gentlemen:

We are in receipt of your favor of the 21st instant, quoting $£.00 each on the special thermometers. I would say in reply that a competitor has beaten you out. He was here about half an hour ahead of your representative last Saturday morning, and had two samples ready for Mr. Edison by half past eleven Monday morning, and received an order some of these ther momaters , 12 of which were delivered today. His price was else considerably lower than yours.

I am afraid you will have to speed up a little next

time .

Yours very truly,

. ,

Assistant to- Mr. Edison.

145

liar oh ' 2 2nd . 1916.

ttgor Mr. Karon :

l um g frtij/l you will think X am: enTtalkl^with Sirs* Ediso) n atter of fact, such is not the case. n her^ for her seleo

•bout the etchings y°u_f£°^ujht t?K it should he a composite of lion of a photograph , her possession. I asked her to allow

several, most of which - - aSd indeed sent a photographer up to the ToZ aid not Wish to have any copies

axistenoe. . . .vt.1n

existence. he unahle to obtain

tM ,u«a xir, fr-

hands in his pockets . ana ne nas

Yours very truly ,

153

Milo. Alice Ver let, 637 i Bon ^ venue , iiew York City.

1 have just received your esteemed favor of yesterday's te, And , of course, I am very glad to act in convoying your wish Mr. Edison, who at this moment is on his way to Florida.

It rather distresses me to throw a little cloud on your tloipations, hut I feel it would only he kindness to you to pre- re you for a ooscihle disappointment- She business and social Intions between Mr. Edison* and Mr. Ford are of a very delicate ture , and both gentlemen are exceedingly punctilious in avoiding e slightest encroachment in each others business affaire.

V<e have bought quite a considerable number of Ford cars r our business purposes here, but we have always paid exactly the me nrice as if we were all absolute strangers to Ur. Ford or his mpany . neither Ur. Edison nor any of our employees have everre- ived one cent of discount from the Ford Company, and v.e have

- -- - — " ■ "■ - "u the other hand, Mr ’*"***’ °

>n phonographs and r

Company . neither Ur. Edison nor any eived one cent of discount from the crobably bought fully fifty cars. 0i g.-sople fceoeive no discount whatever « they purchase from us.

1 must also .Hr. Edison and Mr. Fo: asked by personal fri< men preserve a strict affairs, and never gi’

nation another phase of the relations betweei and that is, although they are frequently s for letters of introduction, both gentle- mtrality in regard to each others business these letters of introduction.

It is with a good deal of regret an w ite this letter, but I feel it is diy duty,

* t you know the facts, and thus to prepare y : /.'ever, this will not detract in the least f • • your request to Ur • Edison, urxrt . therefore > ia should not take this letter as a decision

With kind regards, 1 remain,

ecret arid hesitation that I ly^duty , in all friendliness to rapore you for a possibility.

"least from my friendly advocatr therefore, I would suggest that decision.

listant

torch 22nd

X- / T

^U„trvha'f 1?UliMS,

St. ,

Bear to. Kill lame ;

M1,oai . I0“ f“» « ‘to «« In.tan, to

!..« ;;;r;::r reht ,ho*3',,'“ph •“» *•

lie v:e

graph, and liked lt Eft to have it framed

18 V6ry mUCh int0rested in the photo- very much . Indeed , he has asked and hung in the library here.

He asked blanks and appreciation, iarry out his wishes.

7,0 t0 v;rite you a letter of and this note iB intended to

Hours very truly.

You 7.111 be glad to learn, however, that i is reached a still higher degree of purity,

means of a special, careful method

fhese samples represent this latest mi >n, end we intend to supply this grade rom now on, and expect that discolorat:

Edison laboratory.

ex.

&U*. &

I8i

BBagSinBBBBBIglW! SB8BBES ■ /?2.

March 27th. 1916.

, -'ice Proc-i- •on Company, onward, Ala.

Before i,ir. Edison left for Florida he sold another car¬ load of Haphthulino Flakes from the Woodward Plant for April delivery ~ at 11 1/4^ per pound- Shis wouia call for one car about April 10th and the second car about April 26th.

Our customer also wanted us to contract for a second car¬ load for May delivery, but Mr. Edison said that he did not know whether be would be able' to make it fast enough when the weather gets warm in the month of May. He agreed, however, that if we find we can produce $ fcufft-’iont quantity that month to make up the two carloads he will let ."litouer have the second carload at the same price as the other Uuy namely , 11 S/4 4 per pound.

It is understood ihn fc a carload means 10 tons (36,000 pounds) ••'f to be ..auked in barrels. Ih« price is F.O.B.

'iiewf.r:;,

i.rot

t-;. 1/i aii.cou.nt for cash.

• •:-tcd s<;s ! net delays from cau-.-s bey;nd our con. !:.i satisfactory, I remain,

'.tours very truly,

Assistant to Mr. Edison.

tpfi-O

■.71111 am Knocht, ■ri JUghi 47, f'n, Cv/iteerl and .

I bog to acknowledge receipt of your favor of the 7 th instant, which has been for¬ warded ho Ur. Edison's laboratory.

Mr. Edison has had no vacation for about two years, and last week he went down to his place in Florida, where he will remain for foup£>r five

I am forwarding your letter to him today, and as soon os I hear from him in regard thereto X shall be very glad to communicate with you further.

Confirming our telephone conversation this morning, let me once . j' i;. my apology for having neglected to notify you of the following

r _es of sublimed naphthaline from the Woodward Plant to American Oil &

5 :pply Company.

1 carload to he shipped February 9th - 9 ,l/2$?

1 -> n .. n >1 24th - 10 i

1 || " " " March 10 th ■ - 11?

1 " " " 25th - 11? , ,

1 « " April 10th- - U 1/4?

1 ii " •» » " 25th - 11 l/M

1 . " .. » " " May delivery - 11 3/4?

The American Oil & Supply Company asked us if we would contract for a second carload inthe month of May, but as we do not know whether ve shall be able to make it fast enough when the weather gets warm in the _ month of Hay, Mr. Edison did not want to make a firm contract for a second oar load in that month. He stated, however, that if we find we can produce sufficient in May to make up a second carload we will supply i^to_the_^ American Oil & Supply Company at the same price i IS. 11 3/4^ per pound .

i the other carload,

,-i that a carload means 18 tonB (36,000 pounds) of to be packed in barrels, price to bo i'. 0. B.

, the usual 1# discount for cash.

is made subjeot to delayB from causes beyond our

will be satisfactory , I remain,

Assistant to Mr. Edison.

” ,r “

llarch 27 th. 1916

Benzol Plant , Bohnstown, Pa

ship by express tomorrow, pre¬

toluol to Eastern Labor!

Chester ,

Pont

joining from Thomas A. Edison, Orange

Toluol that we have been shipping to lunham & Moore.

We have arranged to supply the Hercules Powder Company (which belongs to the Du Pont Powder Company) with about 5,180 gallons of pure Toluol early in April, for which they will send a tank car. Please do not put any Toluol in¬ to the tank car, however, until you reoelve definite authority from me as to the exact quantity. I will instruot you about

this later

morrow,

Yours very truly,

Assistant to Hr. Edison

;v. ■

March 28th. 1916.

John Vi., Joyos ,

-t. Col., 3rd. Dept., u. ! Com.ran.Uttg,

Pica tinny Arsenal,

SUBJECT: Phenol Method <

. . „ You? favor of the 20th inetant to M away in Florida on a few weeks vacatii

In meantime , I can reply for h Jr

these matters. In regard to the wooden that they have taken the danger of loss ■ that they can safely ship the cans by lo« the crating where the plug is, and then <■ by a piece of sheet tin which thav wil' - would seem to be in line with your cugges

1'ou will be glad to learn that v -•;« • vanized iron drums to us any mors. w.n< *, in the scrap heap.

c that slot from on the crating.

The reason that we have galvanized Iron drums is bf.c: the material reach you with tion. If the ordinary steel would in time become move- therefore, willing to go to package for each shin nt . ’

ao t son was anxious to have •possible danger of contaiina- ‘■h screw plug were used, they ty inolde- Mr. Edison was, expense of furnishing a new

** ««* i, 2VT lMtant *“ -»» «.

no‘ **u «■« I.aeth or th“ "r' Bu*°»

°“"We ,0U "5ttlrM 10

M”llt •« " “«

«*• «.< * “1‘on ioia «• «». ... ...

»M H, of „ / “M "aa* «P « spec

— :r~— -

— c« rinisKt6"48

:r— —

'-or wes given &ad av.„ t ree dafe after

we ffiven „ld are aoff la ^ t"dl80r' *s rath0r i>nz2lod

223

i .2. <f

IJewark, jj.

Goutlsmon:

Attention o f Mr. ,TnnAP

“““ *■ »H .0 „„ ot

iSM 1 **" **'"^1, ta., f„

««, tho .mw. « thing. «.« have ep.pp.g ,p «ln„ H1,m

«o» i» r,eM to the oo.pi.io, „f th. 01eMe.1

Company ,w the pre.e«oe of ..ter ln ,h. solvent „iplnllt ,hicl no lav. loon .hipping the,. j ..n olllj, e);pros, mj ,w

such haB been the caBe.

naturally, Mr. Edison wishes to supply only first-class material, and, therefore, I will ask you to notify us when the Bay¬ way Chemical Company sends you a charge for the water, and we will issue a credit to you.

Immediately on receipt of your letter of the 22nd instant, I notified our Johnstown Plant by wire to be very careful to elim¬ inate water from the Solvent Haphtha, and I trust there will be no further trouble on thiB score.

The letter of the Bayway Chemical Company addressed to you ie returned herewith.

Yours very truly.

Enclosure .

Assistant to Mr. Edison.

224

March 29th. 1916,

American Oil & Supply Company, .Lafayette Street,

Newark, ii.J.

Gentlemen :

Attention of Mr. Bnrri»».+.

i

I

Referring to your favor of the 20th instant in re¬ gard to the barrel trouble which arose concerning the very first oar of naphthaline that we shipped to you from Wood¬ ward, Ala, i will try and talk this matter over with Mr. Hoffman when he calls in tomorrow.

I nave submitted the whole proposition to our Mr. Mason, and he says that he does not know of any such thing es a standard naphthaline barrel, if there is such an article wo would like to have a sample- If not. could you obtain for us specifications giving size, type, number of hopps, thick¬ ness of staves, etc., etc.

Yours very truly.

Assistant

Mr. Edison.

234

(pi*

^3'

March 29th. 1916.

Mr. C. H. Opdyke,

% Woodward Iron Company Woodward. Ala. P y

Dear Mr. Opdyke:

X enclose herewith copy of a letter from the Amer¬ ican Oil & supply company in regard to the first April ship¬ ment of naphthaline Flakes from Woodward- as you are already aware, we sold our naphthaline i'lakes to them.

you will note that the shipping instructions are quite intricate, and I would ask you to kindly study them over very carefully indeed, and to comply with them to the minutest detail.

If there is anything that you do not understand, or upon which you require fuller instructions, please notify me long enough in advance before you make the shipment.

Yours very truly,

/>'y, /

• Assistant to Mr. Edison.

Enclosure.

?70

Messrs.- Owens & Phillips, #93 Nassau St. ,

New York City.

Gentlemen:

Referring to your letter of Maroh 17th, acknowledging receipt of our telephone instructions to af'fis $16,000.00 insurance on stock, including packages on premises of Edison Benzol Plant, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, we are sending you herewith at your request 2 Blueprints Blowing location of our Building and Tanks. The Building is constructed of steel and corrugated iron.

If these do not meet your requirements, kindly advise us promptly, and we will endeavor to meet them.

iMndTy 8end us policy as soon as same has oome through.

Yours very truly.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY.

RWK/HH

Takamine laboratory, Ino., Equitable Building, Hew York City.

Your favor of the E4th ultimo in reference to Aoetsnilid was received in due time and submitted to Ur. Edison, who is at present in Elorida.

He has requested me to say to you that we cannot afford to make a lower price than originally

> make a higher prioed ohemioal, and c

April 3rd / 1916

April 5th. 1916.

' instill , Esq . ,

£3 1 so:; u-noiag,

Cr.toaft. . Ill.

tear itr - la:; till:

S. have received your favor of the 1st itant, enclosing a letter from Miss Dora Gihson, regard to a trial record which she would like have made by our Hecording Department . ■

It will give me great pleasure to put this matter en train, and shall write to Miss Gibeon and to Waiter Miller at our Recording De¬ partment today.

3A1

Dear Sir :

X have received a letter advising me that the E. I. DuPont de HemourB & Company, will send an 8,000 gallon tank car to the Plant within the next five or six days. This oar is intended to receive the 8,180 gallons of Toluol in regard to which I wrote you a few days ago.

The oar is to receive 8,180 gallons of pure Toluol from us, and about 3,000 gallons of Toluol from the Cambria Steel Company *e Plant, if the oar comes to you first, will you please fill in the 5,180 gallons of pure Toluol, and then advise Mr. Slick, in accordance with a letter I have written to him today, carbon copy of which is attached.

When you have loaded the 5,180 gallons of Toluol into this car please send a formal notification to the Cambria Steel Company so that they can render the usual bill to Mr. Edison. Please be careful on this point, so that there will be no slip-up in their making the charge against Mr. Edison for this 8,180 gallons.

We have not received any shinping instructions in regard to this car of Toluol, after it has been filled, but I will try to obtain Buch instructions at once. Possibly the Cambria Steel Company will attend to the shipment of the car, as the present programme is to load your 5,180 gallons first, and then turn the car over to the Cambria Steel Company.

Yours vory truly,

tv ' '

.assistant to Mr. Edison.

Enclosure .

366

Your favor of the fifth instant has been received, and in accordance therewith I have instructed our Johnstown Plant to load into the DuPont car 6,180 gallons of Toluol. I have also written to the Cambria Steel Company stating that we understand that they will put about 3,000 gallons of Toluol more Into this car, under contract with DuPont.

I trust that everything will come out satisfactorily.

It just occurs to me that we have not yet settled en¬ tirely about the billing of this 6,100 gallons of Toluol, ex¬ cept as to the price, which was to be $2.18 per gallon to Mr. Edison. In a telephone conversation which I had with you re¬ cently you spoke of our billing it to the Hercules Powder Com¬ pany, but I suggested to you that we had no order from them for it, and if this 6,180 gallons is to go on account of your contraot, our object of helping you out to this extent on your contract would be defeated. My recollection is that you were going to talk *6 Mr. Mingle about this.

By-the-way, you have not said anything as to shipping instructions for returning the car to the DuPont people. Of course, if we put in our 6,100 gallons first, ana then turn the car over to the Cambria Steel Company, I suppose the shipping instructions should be given to them. Will you kindly take this matter into consideration.

Yours very truly,

Jistant to Mr. Edison.

3nr?

Apr 13 8th. 1916.

Mr. John Bacon, Jr.,

Edison Benzol Plant,

JohnBtown, Pa.

Pear Sir:

* Referring to my letter of yesterday as to loading 6,180 gallons of Pure Toluol in a tank oar which will he sent to you, I have received word this morning that this tank car has been shipped from Youngstown to Cambria Steel Company, Johnstown, Pa- This tank oar, is PTX 2115. I judge from this that the car will go to the Cambria Steel Company direct, and I have written Mr. Slick this morning informing him of the fact.

Will you please be very particular in giving full attention to the details as comprised in my letter of yester¬ day and the present letter.

1. If you receive the car first, please load into it 6,180 gallons of Pure Toluol.

2. Then turn it over to the Cambria Steel Company, and they will load into it 3,000 gallons of Pure Toluol.

3. Give formal notification to Cambria Steel Com¬ pany, so they can send Mr. Edison their bill for the 6,180 gallons .

4. When you have loaded our 5,180 gallons in the car, please notify me by telegrephat once, and advise me whether you have turned over the car to Cambria Steel Com¬ pany or whether they have already loaded their 3,000 gallons In.

6. I have not yet received instructions for for¬ warding the car when it is filled, but will advise you about that later.

6. I have written to Mr. Slick this morning, giv¬ ing him the number and initials of the car.

Yohrs vory tlruly.

Assistant to Mr. Edison.

Mr. Clarence Dillon,

I Wm. A. Read & Co. , NasBau & Cedar Streete, Hew York City.

Herewith I hag to hand you original and duplicate of the agreement between Newport Hydro Carbon Company and Mr. Edison covering *600 gallons of Benzol per day from July 1st,

1916 to June 30th, 1917. These have been signed by Mr. Edison.

You will notice under the head of quantity that. 1 hav<

inserted, at Mr. Edison' i "but in any event not exi Mr. Edison desired this for him to take the enti: kindly ask your people ti

request, the following limiting words: eeding: seven (700) gallons per day", o be inserted, as the contract oalls e production of the plant. Kill you initial the interlineation, a6 X have

done, and return one copy of this oontract to me when it is Bigned .

As to the other contract, I shall have to ask your in¬ dulgence for a few days on account of a ouriouB error made by Mr. Edison end myself.

You will remember that this was for 500 gallons a day from May 15th to June 30th, 1916. On receiving the contract, Mr. Edison overlooked for the moment the fact that he had previous¬ ly executed the renewal contract,* with the Milwaukee Coke & Gas ■ Company and the Northwestern Iron Company, and had an impression that this was a renewal of 500 gallons for a year. He, therefore, thought that June 30th, 1916 should bo June 30th, 1917, and in a memorandum which he sent up to me with the contracts requested me to change the date accordingly. If I haa stopped a moment to think I should have seen that the date as you had it was cor¬ rect, but I dia not stop to think and made the change to 1917 and noted it at the end of the onntraot.

A few minutes afterward I happened to think that x made a mistake, and as I did not want to make an, entire contract, I had it re-oopied and sent aown to him for signature.

I shall, therefore, forward this to you in a few days.

Yours very truly,

Enclosures.

April 10th. 1916 1

Kaye & Einstein,

38 West 32nd Street, Hew York City.

Gentlemen :

I thought you would perhaps like to have a line from me to let you know how greatly pleased X am with the fur lined ooat, as to which the fur part was furnished hy you. It is surely very hand¬ some and oonfortahle. You will he glad also to learn that Mr. Edison also liked the one which you made for him.

yours very truly.

April 11th. 1916.

Mr. K. C. lytle,

$ Hotel Rochester, Boohester, H. X.

Your favor of the second instant was re¬ ceived and sent down to Mr. Edison, who is spending c. few weeks in Florida.

He wishes us to say in reply that your idea would not be practicable. She gases which are af;6a attack the metals if the slightest trace of air s'eic Va, which would be the case with oil pipe lines and fcb'»y would be destroyed. The liq.u«.s which ex¬ pand to gr,S are put into closed steel cylinders under a pressure of 2,000 pounds per square inch, '/ours very truly,

Edison laboratory.

4%

John Bacon, Jr . ,

% Edison Benzol Plant Johnstown, Pa

Herewith 1 hand you a copy of a letter I have written thiB morning to Mr. Slick. It wiU explain itself.

I am trying everything in my power to move Lun- ham & Moore consignment. I have brought to bear all the pressure that I knov? of in three or four directions, but sc far cannot get permission from the Pennsylvania P.ailroad Compuny to their Agent at Johnstown to receive the stuff.

I realize what you are up against, and am trying my ut¬ most to get the stuff away. If we cannot do any better, we shall have to provide another storage tank. Of course, it will relieve you to some extent when you load the 1180

ga'.lons in the tank c

Yours very truly,

446

April 12-fcH.

Mr. Louis Lazard,

92 William Street,

Uew York City.

Dear lir . Lazard:

in regard to the gross weight of the

2,000 pounds of Paraphenylenediamine , 1 called

np th. factory Ihey MU ~ that there ~ cheat a hundred end forty poanae of other ~»»ui .eat at the same time, end the only E»o=» »eieht they can ftna i. cheat 2000 poonas. ! should. therefore, ho Inclined to thin* that the 2.000 ponnd. of **- phenylenedlotaine cloae .oald ho cheat no,,**-

Yours very truly.

1916.

April 13th. 1916

. Harry it. Denton.

ri 7 Fifth Avenue ,

Hew York City.

IRSA

SS.X" *“ not " <™*Sr

«~M W V~?S.bSSS 5al«» •

speaks positively about electricity -To.' !- MCa?Ver treatment. We frequently have inon^- - J.

you have maae. but Mr. Edison invar : reolies ^o^hwBaKOV0 e£feot* otating at thr . r ti; 8 that he has not personally made n t.', this

whateve°n Sn<5 ostmot BP®ak with r ;alty

. Yours very

m

Assir >!

April 13 th. 1916.

Mr- P. J. Kruasi,

$ American laya /Company , Chattanooga, Tenn.

Dear Mr. ErueBi:

I am in, receipt of your favor of the lath inBtant, ancl in reply wuld aay that I am quite euro Mr. Edison would i.o t. break his .Journey at Chattanooga. However, /you need no accept my oplaipn aB .final on. that subject. If you would like to send.^np-a letter addressed to Mr. Edison, putting the matter plainly hej?pj;e him, I shall take great pleasure In sending i. t down to him In Florida..

i realize the .difficulties, as we are*- trying to persuade, hill tv stop over in. Philadelphia for two. or three hours on h mat tor of exceedingly great hUBineBS Importance, and st this 'jciuont we have: our doubts ns to whether he "will

:e know that he will be very anxious ) oratory at the earliest possible mom-

get back

ends

Bear Sir :

Your favor of the 12th instant has been received, and in reply v.e beg to say that we are preparing to manufact. Para Amido Fhenol in duantity. but at this time v:e are only in the laboratory stage of production. The grade we have Pr duced so far is the commercial, but undoubtedly you will requi the refine for photographic purposes, t'.e have instructed ou chemist to take up work on the refined, and we shall hope to send you a sample before long .

V,e are not making Hetol. and Mr. Edison is just r.c in Florida, We do not know whether or not we will go into 1 manufacture of Metol when he returns.

Yours very truly, .

laboratory .

481

O / '

April 17th. 1916.

. gS5£2 2£Ki

propel being Vnewm as "commercial .

I am writing to you ^.^[^ut^hfther yot^woul^be* interest- let you know about this ana 1 _„t in a plant. X have not ap¬

od in the product if he decdd®®+ +J: U80 of this material for photo- proaohed any other concern with your concern have "been s° ®x~

bas wK*y£-

iGietant to Ur. Edist

7 i /

April 17th. 191G .

ti:u5. & Company, limited,

26 Madiaon Avenue,

hev; York City. Attention of jgr. gakaki.

ntlemen ;

I am in receipt of your favor of the th instant in regard to galvanized iron drums r shipment of Phenol. Your statement as the total Bhipped to us and the total number used quite right. There are still unused, 66 drums, which kC are not. filled and ready for shipment

notified Mr. Homura this after-

April 18th. 1916

Berlin Mills Company,

Portland, Me. Attention of Ur . Marrinar.

Pear Mr. Marrinar:

I am going to take the liberty of asking you for some information. At one of our Carbolic Acid Plants v.e are producing Sulphite of Soda as a by-product. I under¬ stand that this chemical is used to a largo extent by paper manufacturers, but I have been told that they make their own supply .generally Bpeaklng. Mr. Edison is away in Florida, and I am trying to line up the sale of our by-products dur¬ ing his absence.

1 am sending you by parcel post a sample of our product, and should be glad to have any information which you care to afford me .

She Maine fever is getting into my blood now that the grass is beginning to appear, und I find myself look¬ ing forward to our annual visit to the Cape.

tilth kina regardB, I remain,

Yours very truly,

17th. 1916 ,

535

£77

^pril 10th. 1914.

Keith Car Company,

Peoples Gas Building,

Chicago, Ill.

Gentlemen :

I have receives your favor of the sixth instant, and I can only say in reply that all through our transactions it has been a pleasure to deal with you because you have been prompt and fair, and have given us good service.

I also appreciate very much the fact that you have dealt with me on such a liberal basis in renewing the leases of the cars which I am renting from you. You may rest assured that your good treatment will not be forgotten, and 1 shall naturally turn to you in whatever future bust no or:, i in your line.

y., m very truly,

554

St. Kegit i?aper Company,

Water town, !•!. Y.

Gentlemon :

At one of our Chemical Plants we are producing Sulphite of Soda in' two grades, Anhydrous and hydrated, and we understand that this is used in paper making. If you are interested we shall be glud to send you samples and quote prices.

Yours very truly,

Edison laboratory.

567

April 21st. 1916.

ffrawr & Company,

60 Church Otreot,

Hew York City.

Gentlemen :

Your favor of the ICtfc ins tent has been received . v,’e would say j.n reply that we are not making any dyes at all. make the following chem¬ icals : Carbolic Acid , Aniline Oil, Aniline Salt, Acetauilid, Acetate of god-.'., and Paraphenylene- d lamina, inasmuch, an v.o are already contracted up to practically the limits of our production, we do not see that it would avail us anything to send you samples and quote prloaB.

Y.'e might say for your information that we have already had a considerable amount of Japan¬ ese business from our friends Mitsui & Company, Ltd.

Yours very truly,

Edison laboratory.

572

V / 7

Eastman kodak Company,

Rochester, U.y, Attention of a-. C. \, . Markus. Gentlemen;

',.e received your telegram of the 20th instant, and are mailing today a sample two ounce bottle of our Commercial Para Amido Phenol, which you can try experimentally.

Just at thiB time I cannot give you either the prob¬ able price or the estimated output and delivery date. Before he wont away, Mr. Edison started one of our Chemists on a job of producing a small quantity of this material every day in the Laboratory, so that he would be able to decide on his return how much of a plant would be necessary, when it could be pul up, and what the cost would be. On this data he expected to de¬ cide whether or not he would put up a commercial plant.

He leaves Florida tomorrow for home and we expect that he will be here at the Laboratory on V.ednesday next. I ehall take the matter up with him on hip return, and will ad¬ vise you further,

¥ours very' truly,

yv,

Assistant to Ur. Edison,

588

Hon. Josephus? Daniels,

Secretary of the Havy,

Washington, D. C.

Uy dear Sir;

Your favor of the 20 Ui instant to Ur.

Edison , together with the two itemG of printed matter which you have sent him, have been received.

He is en rout-; from Florida, and I expect him at the offico on Y.e flay morning, when the above will be handed to him.

Yours very truly ,

Assistant to Ur. Edison.

April

24th. 1916.

iir. F. . o. Liobold, Secretary ft Treasurer,

Henry Ford Hospital,

Detroit, Mich.

ily dear Mr. Liobold:

I am in receipt of your favor of the 22nd instant in regard to Carbolic Acid, und I am glad to say that your letter reached the right person, as I have worked with Mr. Edison on the Carbolic Acid business since we started making it.

V.hile we are contracted pretty closely to our pro¬ duction, we could certainly tike cars of your' requirements, as they are very moderate. 1 am going to sena to you a sample of the Carbolic Acid which we produce, and which is u»od for pharmaceutical purposes.

If this quality is suitable for your use at the Hos¬ pital, we can supply your requirements 'as stated at 77 l/2^ per pound, which is the price we are getting for the pharma¬ ceutical grade .

Y/e have several sizes of packages for shipment, name¬ ly, 26 pounds, 50 pounds, 100 pounds and 250. pounds. The con¬ tainers are galvanized sheet iron, and a now container is used for every shipment.

Trusting that all t>f the above will bo of interest to

you, I remain.

Yours very truly,

.tipi'll 24th. 1!

Dr. William Kneoht,

Rue au Righi 47,

Zurich, Switzerland.

Dear Sir:

Since writing to you on the 1st in¬ stant, I have received another memorandum from Mr. Edison in which he says that he would be willing to pay for a. cheaper process than he is now using to make Para Amido Phenol, both commercial and refined.

At the present time he makes Para Amido Phenol by nitrating phenol and reducing the resultant para nitro phenol with iron and HC1.

Yours very truly,

t 'v • * •

Assistant to Mr. Edison.

April 20t'u

McGraw-Hill Book Company,

239 West 39th Street,

Hew York City.

Gentlemen:

Your circular letter was received. Mr. Edison wishes to have a copy of Mr. Frederick C. Wagner's book "Coal and Coke". Will you kindly send copy of this boob addressed to me, with bill made out against Thomas A. Edison and oblige, Youre very truly.

Assistant to Mr. Edison.

Yours very truly.

April 27th. 1916.

Hy dear Mr. hazard:

I am afraid you must have misunderstood me as we have never had any intention of manufac¬ turing Hydruquinone . Possibly I told you that we were large users of it, and I may not have made my statement clear enough. We purchase our Hydro- quinone from the General Chemical Company, who, so far as I know are the only manufacturers.

I have a letter from E. P. Griffiths & Company, 81 Pulton Street, Hew York City on s other matters, and I notice on their letter-head.

that they mention Hydroquinone . Whether or not they are manufacturers I have no idea, hut simply mention their name for your information.

Yours very truly.

Assistant to Mr. Edison..

TuftE

Mass

Dear Sir :

I have received yon." favor of the 22nd inBtant, ana in reply heg to »ay that I shall have some experimental wor* in th-.i line you men ti on. which could wait until June to he taken up- I could start you at §15. per week. If you want to try it, please let me know.and also say about what date in June you would he ready to commence

Yours very .truly,

..pril £913i. 193.0 .

Madame Rita V.ilbourno,

3837 Baring Street,

Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Madam:

lour favor of the 26th instant to Mrs. Edison v,aE referred by her to Mr. Edison, and wo are requested to say in reply that Mr. Edison cannot see his way clear to write a letter comment! nr upon your daughter's ability.

She was engaged here on experimental worh only, and if Mr.

Edison were to write any comments upon her ability, it would open the door to a great deal of trouble and annoyance for him from many sources.

Regretting that you cannot be accommodated, we

remain,

Yours very truly,

Edison laboratory.

(>t/v

I

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April 28th. 1=46 .

Hr. Louis Lazar d,

92 William Street.

liew York City.

Lear Mr. Laa-ard:

iieierring to my previous letter of this date, I am writing to ask what course you wish ue to pursue in regard to

Paraphenylenediaraine .

You will remember that sometime ago, just before you went to the ’.Vest Indies, you placed an order for one ton for future delivery, and gave us your check for s1400.00 as a 26, u advance payment .

In your favor of the 26th instant you ask us to ship

our attention.

on account of your unfortunate experience in having the first large lot °f0f^nylenediamine turned back m your hands on account of delay b deliver col

the ^b al anc e ° o f your "order lor 2.000 pounds.

On the contrary, if you wish the or^er ^dS^£g ’ /t®

complied with.

1

age and desire '

Yours very truly,

Lstant. t<

, Kdison.

Yours

Johns-Manville Co.,

239 Halsey Street,

•Newark, H. J. Attention o-r U

OBborn.

if erring again to your favor of the Nr. Edison wishes me to state that ijection to your using the photo- rou have of the phonograph works .

> still adheres to his decision that

: you using the photograph of the sal Works .

Yours very truly,

jistant to Hr. Edison,

My dear Ur. Kimball ;

'imi wrote to me under date of March 23td in vesard to a form of motor which oan be relied upon to drive a phonograph for ft very considerable length of time without

"hanging it a sored characteristics. X wrote to you stat-

thSt 1 hadV,-v-t the -etter down to Mr. Edison in Florida, Ird h ashed mo to ^o‘id it until his return. He is bach at Vl‘a Laboratory, ftftd now wishes me to write ana say th.it we have a small motor department and have made a great many

SZtJZ n-e mating about 100 per day for our

rV“;f rjf-, he y-nve not succeeded, however, hpr

euwiUteB * n;; - ;s practicable for the musical pbono-

-.v-sins a r,;X w.ouireav.-nts are so severe, ana Ur.

.x«.ph Vn y- ^ ny one elBe has produced such a

a° 80 *

. 1 ur: i- hen me to say to you that he will be

Mr. Fred. M. Kimball,

Manager Small Motor Department, General Electric Company West Lynn, Mass.

080

May 3rd. i9l6>

Newark, IJ. j.

Dear Sir:

ifcF*

- ' - ^ Y/ho can we

let we i

anf SS £.»& fc -

May

vanoed were the trl^afe? parta of «» work! J,

^on 20 to 22 l/s ^«+fr PE?88 men* tiie green hand^"? "“"“D aa-

like the older men? ^when 8£ h£S &!! learn^^f S*1^

are foufld to be good and Bteady, they general! v°£ s?Wl! time and .press department where a bonus system fn i2:Le° t,°.th9 print

euie iouau. to oe gooa ana Bteady ycpress department where a bonue Bystem is^in^Lf0 ths prin ( vthem an opportunity of earning 26 to 28 oentl per’hour?^ giVee

*f.y «.

tholVcigstly men wd employ because of their lack ^ the

usS^qu??- Bnd Whe“ they g6t t0 *•« SrgtifrSKSi-^

Yours very truly,

/

G98

.b

May 4th. 1916.

lunham & Moore,

Produce Exchange,

Hew York City.

Gentlemen :

Your favor of the seoona inBtant has been re¬ ceived* Mr. hazard wrote to ue about the shipment of 600 pounds of Paraphenylenediamine, but said that the oaseB were to be marked 11. Your letter Baye they are to be marked l.G.Co. london, England. We hare written to Mr. hazard for instructions .

The material is praotically ready, and v;e only await Mr. hazard' b instructions for shipment. You will un¬ doubtedly be able to get the goods before the time for the steamer sailing about May 13th. 1916.

Yours very truly,

Edison laboratory.

May 4th

Mitsui & Company, Limited,

25 Madison Avenue,

Mew York City.

Attention of Mr. Takakl .

Gentlemen :

Beplying to your favor of the 1st instant in regard to liquefying chlorine gas plant, Mr. Edison wishes me to say that the Hooker Chemical Company, Miagara Balls, make electrolytic cells for manufacturing soda and chlorine, and he thinks they can furnish you with the outfit you desire.

Yours very truly.

Assistant to Mr. Edison.

Mr- iouis hazard,

92 William Street,

Mew York City.

I am in receipt of your eBteemed favor of the £th instant giving instructions for the shipments? °f 600 pounds and 200 pounds .if Paraphenylenediamine , for London and Bordeaux respectively. These instructions shall have our proper attention.

I would say for your information that I am still awaiting instructions about shipment to the Oriental navigation Company. Their office is at 17 Battery Place', bo, of course, we could not ship there, as that 1b an office building.

I wrote to them three or four days ago asking for shipping instructions', but have not .yet heard from them. Perhaps you will be kind enough to give them a punch.

Yours very truly.

Assistant to Mr. Edison.

■cC*-

General Letterbook Series Letterbook, LB-112 (1916)

This letterbook covers the period May-June 1916. Most of the correspondence is by Edison and William H. Meadowcroft. Included is correspondence pertaining to Edison’s benzol absorbing plants and other chemical manufacturing interests. Some of the letters deal with the commercial development of phonographs and motion pictures. There are also items relating to the upcoming presidential election, including letters to Guy Emerson of the Roosevelt Non-Partisan League in which Edison endorses Theodore Roosevelt as "the only man that should be considered" and agrees to serve on the League's Advisory Board. A letter to artist Jacques Reich concerns a portrait of Mina Miller Edison. Other correspondents include Arthur E. Kennelly, former chief electrician at the West Orange laboratory, and representatives of Mitsui & Co. and Vickers, Ltd.

The spine is stamped "Letters" and is marked "T .A.E. From May 31916 To June 30, 1916." The number "50" also appears on the spine. The book contains 700 numbered pages and an index. Approximately 15 percent of the book has been selected.

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Mr. W. D. Villmot,

pall Hiver, Mbbb.

Dear Mr. Wilmot:

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tinge

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Uoutb very, truly .

30

May 4th. 1916.

Engineering Magazine,

140 Nassau Street,

New York City.

Attention of Mr, Punk Gentlemen:

A few days ago v.e had a visit from Mr.

W. E. Kemble who had an interview with Mr. Edison. He also saw the Chronograph as arranged by Mr. Edison for his own test. Mir. Kemble asked us to send a photograph of this instrument to you, and we take pleasure in forwarding two phctographs of the same.

Yours very truly,

Edison laboratory.

Enclosures,

May 6th. 1916.

Mr. C. E. Adame , Direotor,

The Hector Observatory ,

Wellington, Hew Zealand.

Dear Sir:

Your favor of March ninth wae handed to me on my return from Florida, let me say in reply that Prof. 0. w. Ritchie of the Carnegie Observatory at Mt. Wilson, Cal. haB been trying to get a fused quartz mirror, and although he has the baching' of the Carnegie Institution he has not been able to get any encouragement.

The fused quartz has many bubbles which fill with grinding material and make it impossible to polish the sur¬ face true near where it cuts through one of these bubbles.

A 40" mirror weighs 1,000 pounds and a 10* mirror weighs 18,Q00 pounds. Quartz haB not been fused in such large masses .

If it could be fused and kept hot for a long period like glasB the bubbles would probably rise and leave the mass clear.

This will probably be done some day, and it will bring a very great advance in astronomical mirror efficiency, as the temperature warping is their greatest trouble now.

Yours very truly.

May 6th. 1916.

Mes8rs- RS’sS,4 Company'

Hew York City.

Gentl emen;

OOiiyillEMTTAT.

I am in receipt of your inquiry of the 28th ultimo in regard to A. Hollander & Son, Newark, jj. j.

They are very large dyers of fure, very enterprising. We Bell them about $6,000. worth of materials per month, and they pay us promptly. ..s nave never investigated their financial conditions as they pay us very promptly. S believe their profits are very high.

Yours very truly.

34

jr

Uay 4th. 1916.

George HenderBon, Esq.,

701 Franklin Building,

Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir :

Referring to your favor of the 28th ultimo, let me say that 1 have been quite buBy day and night since it was received, hence the delay in replying thereto.

I have received a letter from Ur. Mallory stating that he has called upon you and had a long talk with you about the matter, and has explained the present situation. If you or your client would desire to have a talk with me also on this matter I should be glad to see either or both of you at any time if you will advise me in advance of your

coming.

Yours very truly.

Ur. Porter Pollock,

‘/ilhe William B. Pollock Co.. YoungBtown, Ohio.

Dear Sir:

Your favor of the 26th ultimo hae been brought to my attention on my return from Florida.

let me aay in reply to your inquiry that I aid not continue my experiments for ex¬ tracting the dust of the gas as it passes from the blast furnace, and, therefore, 1 am unable to help you out.

Yours very truly.

37

Dominion Iron & Steel company,

<4 Bowrirg is Company,

17 Battery Place,

Hew York City.

Attention of Mr. F.E.horgan.

Referring to oar recent correspondence.- In regard to your o,ude Kap'ntballat, let me say that I have a refining plant at one of ^ BeB..ol ? tr; , in which I refine the exude naphthaline. Thie

jslant worses very satisfactorily.

Mv proposition to you is that I will erect at my own ex- paiuije a refining plant at your works at Sydney and take over what crude Faphthaline you have on hand and all of that which you make for one ,M to rel’tne tie ..no one PW 7«« 2 *"

-3.M naphthaline ehlpped raw «»"■ “1* pl>4t' ™ 6 8“

„lat of !t.». ».o....W et . noni.nl ““ *“ ” *1”'

steam at cost to yon.

-hie oontrnot to mn for *«■ » W«on “ “

•ontinneior on. additional yew, tith * provide. » **11 ,0“ *

the end of the contract for teo-thlrd. do wtual °ri8l»l Youre very truly,

^S'ine . .

May 8th. 1916.

liltBul & Company, Limited.

26 Attention of .Mr. Tafeaki.

Gentlemen:

applying to youi iawor of th. fifth *»*»*. ln ”‘

„td to 110.1* ohlorl.ro. I — *• — * * “M“’

„d ho says that th.ro 1. . nhlorlne plant 1» operation .« «- ^ alhall «yandot;e, Ulch. they .ight ..11 you

drawings or fornlah you with . pl.nt.

*„.!* Hoffs. * ««• » «»— »• *" *"*

- ohlorlne at th.ir pla.t at »!..«. — »

Botmning co-pany. *o -u «"•*. ~ ‘1*° ““ “0

. r,nthar either of these concerns would he able to

We do not know whether eirner

=:.--rr.:=r.v. r.

El.otro Bleaching oo.pany 1» o,«iPP.* * — Cl1"1

6“' ur. Edison wish.. .. « — * °£ * «“ 'e*a

at a ...ting of oh-1-1 aoolotl.. a short ti.o ago.

Yours very truly,

ABSiBtant to Mr/ Edison.

Enclosure .

45

Xiiij »• , ly'i.u

VJLCfcurfc 2*51 ted,

Vioicers House; Broadway,

Westminister, London, England*

Gentlemen t-

I am transmitting to you "by Mr. Bobert Seville two copies of a proposed agreement between you, Edison Stor¬ age Battery Company and myself, which, if you find satisfactory and rill duly execute both copies thereof and deliver the same

l-.hin four months from the date hereof, I wu-i : v.. ... third identical copy duly executed

■■ nr-d ;:ehalf of Edison Storage-Ba^V’y Very t£Uiy' yours , y

3 re up on yvoli

51

May 9th. 1916.--

Mr . Henry M. Howe,

Broad Brook Hoad,

Bedford Hills, H.l.

Bear Sir:

•jour favor of the fifth instant was re¬ ceived and brought to Mr. Edison's attention. He has signed the application blank for membership in the American Society for testing Materials. He qvi.it e approves of your suggestion that his occupa¬ tion should bo entered as "Inventor".

I return the application for membership '

herewith.

Yours very truly,

assistant to Mr.

Enclosure

May 9th.

Mr. Williams. Heal,

1400 K Street, M. W.,

N Washington, D.‘ C.

Bear Sir:

^our favor of the third inBtant in re¬ gard tq color process for use in motion picture work has boon received. 1 beg to Bay in reply

that we are no longer interested in euoh a pro-

iiut-

eeee. During theAsix years we have experimented to the extent of over $60,000.00, and lost it.

We have al$o lost interest.

Yours very truly,

"7...

Hay 9tb. 1916.

Hafsrring to your favor of the 26th ultimo, Mr. wishes me to express hlB appreciation of your kind -n regara to the released reoord, of "Morning, -Moon Might overture". Your good opinion of this record is of much gratification to him.

He wishes me to say also that if the horn in an instrument is not set properly seme reproducers will blast. Sometimes the reproducer itself will blast, while others will not. It is very difficult to make them all alike, just, as it. is difficult to make' all violins alike. If your repro¬ ducer is poor, we will Exchange it for a new one without charge .

to. «*» » 10 ‘ *8*1"

other reproducers.

Assistant to Mr. Edison.

Mr‘ Avanue,

V« fork Oltjr.

.„...rine- 5»“ question as to -y '»■ colonel Eoosot.lt fo’r oar «»* Sro.14.ot, I ..old ,.y that I belief ■» “ “• ^

that should t. coo.ld.r.4 at this .raol.l P.rl"d- B. oa, more r.al .tateemanehlp, « »•«" 01

to. most important o..4s of this ooantry. and gr.ut- „ eneoutlve ability to handle the big international problems that .111 .ns. •* the .lose of «*• *“• than all the oth.r proposed oandld.t.e pat together. HI, energy , o.p.olty and rest enp.rlwo. 1» 1“«* affairs of state and nation for many years, tog.th.r wlth his great patriotism and his Intense Amerlcan- ism, and his great knowledge m all line, of ham., endeator ..he hi. deoldedly the most striking figure in American life.

yours very truly,

/0$~

r . jot* B.

Jacksonville , »ia.

Lear Sir:

Your /favor of

been received/ ana he ^greatly please? t Diamond Disc Phonograph 1 He thinks. you will beQAte;

84

< Hr. Edison haB Mt your Satisfaction, jsihaen-

putting in a gooVffi in improving the manu- *.,vr.uring technique of the records, add he helievea you will m Vl'io a i- re at improvement in later numbers.

An to your idea of utilising the phonograph for mak¬ ing tour trade announcements, he wishes me to state for your formation that the manufacture of the Diamond Disc record.

* ^ter of very great d.Ucsoy. involving factory process¬ es that have taken years to perfect, and it -is only by the -

,t «. «».* «• *“l «“* “*

Hon 0, the human voice is accomplished.

It would be practically possible to carry out your - natural reproduction of the human

„lc. ,1th ™ o{ » mak.

the griddle” so to speak. It wo

a„y attempt to accomplish * ^ Edl80n Dloto,lD6

„ 1 zz - - **

, , r,, .. ba the regular talking machine style of but it would f-a**- do v.

.-id woulc not deceive anybody.

”p*oaua «- «•* - — —

„ „ ,,o -»««*■ *• «*“ ■1““ “

Yours very truly,

Edison Laboratory.

92

May 12th. 1916.

Cambria Steel Company,

Johnstown, Pa. Attention of Mr. Whittaker.

Gentlemen

I sent you the following telegram yesterday:

"Eeferrlng my letter April 27th to your Mr. Yihittaker, are you will¬ ing I shall take crude Naphthaline on royalty has la of one and quarter oents pound? I have request for quo¬ tation from Johnstown local eonoom",

I have had no reply from you as yet, and write now to confirm this telegram. The inquiry for the crude Naphthaline comes to me from the Union Chemical & Refin- * ing Company, Johnstown, Pa,, and I cannot quote them until I receive your answer.

Yours very truly,

v^cmoj Ct . fr-

n’hs J. H. Day Company,

Harrison Ave. & ®treet’

Cincinnati, Ohio.

Gentlemen :

"Sour favor of the 9th instant hao been received, and I thank you for your prompt reply.

It seems that 1 did not get a proper understanding of Ur. Edison's retirements .hen I .rote you before. He .ants a regular paint mill for grinding the carter

tlack into a thin ™ ***• *1“n

eays he is a little afraid of stone grinding sur¬ faces and for his particular purpose .ould "ft 1U» to have metallic grinding suf faces.

Have .you any such mill to offer? v0urs very truly.

Assistant to Mr. Edison.

May 11' th. 1916

, Guy Emerson, Seorev-r^,

Roosevelt Non-Parti Ren -A -at 12 Vanderbilt avenue, iievf York City.

Dear Mr. Emerson:

I am in receipt of your favor of the 11th instant asking my consent to add my name to the list of the members of your Advisory Bo„d, “» 1 “

you should do so.

Yours very truly^.

I havG been woxOri the night b, for nearly throe week’8 mail until yesterday replying to your favor of ; ever, it will be in time i'..

uj «r.y s-.-.i night, and through

weeks. X did not see my lab t hence .he la.h e$ promptness in -.o sixth instant. I trust, how- • your purppse.

In addition to the inventions and discoveries men¬ tioned in your letter, let me suggest the following: the Diesel and Turbine engines ; obtaining nitrogen from the air by electric processes; the nitrifying of bacteria on the legumes, giving- nitrogen to the soil. Surgical transplantation of large narts of the living body, which continue t.o function.' The discovery that the heart* of small aniraals oar. perform their ^-•“ctionB ana can’ continue to beat for months after being de- : f-om the hod v when placed in the proper environment.

ootric production of acetylene, oyenarnide, chlorate?. •* nd » *-he- obento s'1 •' *<•>. o invention and introduction -of un»0-

n.' m achinerv for manufacturing bottles with great rapidity from the raw materials to the complete bottle. High '-uGod tool steal alloys doubling the productiveness of all

tools jSitvvw'ic dvlves on individual machines in manu- •faotuV'J' eithhJlBhaent*. The development of anti-toxins for the cose 4’ typhoid, syphilis and other diseases.

,f the above •. ill be of some service to you : with* kin-’/'re.tardc, I remain.

jov:. Va- l; , ^

r. Edmund D. ^®6e^a’ Hawthorne St.,

OTood^ve.dandei R> x<

,„ar Dr. Chese'bro : delay tn acfc-

3 4 m vindly excuse th% +ie28th ult-

imo . X wanted to snow campaigns.^ |enoheB • I am

ss s^vs.-r-sa. ln.

afraid he will ^ correspondence. *°ek> *at

H.TBO vis*108 rae , , « win try the 4+ will not. *?u 111 *

v& ^ Klr

»■* »«•*• M„s «u.

WSS3S"

A/7

MUeuJ Company, Limited, co .Madison Avenue,

Hew York City

Gentlemen ; attention of »r T.lmvt.

01 ^ **' ■»•' eommunice tel to .. the pur„„t

tie . r””™Sl°“ "“h ” “ °V,t th« telephone In „g„a t„ he , - ,e» Poluol. „ appears that the, are no. produo.

“* "0OaTOH * 1"*“ ’>““«*» « -1»1 than the U0 eai. lone necessary to flu ,our contract „lth ^ ^

Company , and you d.eire t0 ascertain aetier J0„ shall to me a. the earn. prlc. the h.leo gallon. »Meh , recently let ••on have from y0h„ate.« Plan, at ,1.1s per gallon, to „.M. pen to Peep year contract delir.ry to the Hercules Ponder com¬ pany.' or .hether you .h.uld sell the ere... lol.ol produce! at l.oodward and put the proceed, into our Joint account.

1 thank you for calling attention to this matter and ,o.ld say that I think I .ould prefer to hay. you to

•a C.1SG gallons at ,1.1s p,t gallon. ,hich oan he taken out of the exc.ee production as it 1, „ad. at thotondtumd Plan.

Mr. John Bacon, ,Jr ,,

f. Edison Benzol Plant,

Johnstown, Pa>

Dear Sir:

We have been in negotiation-with the Union Chemical and, Refining Company in regard to our orude Naphthaline. They wantAus to quote a price, and we had tb first make some pre¬ liminary arrangements with the Cambria Steel Company, a„ orude .Naphthaline was not specifically mentioned in our contract.

We have now arrived at a definite understanding wife, the Cambria Steel Company, and have made a quotation of price to the Union Chemical and Refining Company* We telegraphed them today.- I think that they will undoubtedly take our crude Naphthaline, so please be prepared to let them take it away.

I have not yet received their definite order for it, but shall telegraph you the moment I do receive it.

Yours very truly.

Assistant to Mr. Edison.

f Edison Benzol Plant, Johns town. Pa.

Dear Sir:

I am in receipt of your favor of the l!..th instant, and am glad to learn that you will have a shipment of refined Solvent Naphtha ready in two or throe days. Please ship this to the Bayway Chemical Company, as usual. Kindly ex¬ ouse me for reminding you once more that thiB Solvent Naphtha should be free of water.

Yours very truly.

Assistant to Mr. Edison.

P.S. I have requested to send you the

our Purchasing Department ten drums of Caustic Soda.

12a

May 16th. 1916.

Miss nliee Daniels,

1607 V.'ilton Street,

Denver, Colo.

Dear Madam:

Replying to your favor of the 11th instant. we beg to say that Mr. James B. Adams was formerly employed by us. but we dispensed with his services on March 18th. and we do not know hie present address .

Yours very truly ,

Edison Laboratory.

128

■f

Merck & Company,

46 Park Place,

Haw York City.

Gentlemen :

Referring to your favor of the 8th instant, we have requested our plant to send to you samples of our Sodium Sulphite and Sodium Acetate. We shall be glad to have you advise us whether you are interested in these after you have reoeived and examined the samples.

In regard to Iron by Hydrogen, we would say that we manufacture large quantities for our storage batteries, and for the last three or four months have been making an excess, which has been sold to several chemical manufactur¬ ers and jobbers* It is a higher grade than U.S.P., but has a trace of Sulphur, which comes from our using sulphates in its manufacture. Wo do not care to use ohlorides, as it would necessitate altering our present apparatus, and we could not produce, it as cheaply as we now do from sulphates. You have already had a sample of this Iron by Hydrogen, and you turned it down on account of the Sulphur.

Yours very truly,

Edison Laboratory.

,30

|

oh

Dear Mr. MvW- the 16th inetant,

.<* M. «*.» «P *»• "Mle “ r rt on .« «y~“»

* « b“iui“6’ „t • *• *»“ia -* “ **■

that he was looking for, ’ ^ life> j think that

terosted in continuing the tea ^ machlnes that *ere

what he was hoping for «■ one

made at Uenlo Park. very much for

yr. Edison nvisheB - * *

the opportunity «hich you have trouWe ahout it. «s-

—

Yours very truly.

Assistant

Mr. Edison.

May lbth. 1916

Milo, .'.lice Verlefc,

C.3V Madison Avenue,

;iaw York City.

My aeor Mile. Verlet:

1 have shown to Mr. Edison your favor of the 13th instant and also the newspaper clipping. There are a lot of mistakes that were made in the preparation of tbla newspaper article ana »• Bdi.cn “ '".ci.llp “«r»

that year .... - »«* ■* *“ 1“t‘ “ ’1",“ ” “

.upr.sa to pen bl. sincere regret far tb. o.l.alo. of p.«r He would net bare bad It happen "for a great deal.

I an ioo polite to tell lou wbat be thlnbs of v„. »» .be la responsible for tbi. blunder, but I can tell " that ». jSdi.on 1. lare.tlg.tlng and I .P » *“

go bard wltb tb. nan who baa nade these awful nlstabea.

v.ith kindest regards, 1 remain,

Yours very truly,

Assistant to Mr. Edison.

May 17th. 191$:

Mr- John Acton,

118 John Street, Brooklyn,

Mr. Edison is looking for the old atandard Bogardus paint mill, and the director¬ ies that we have do not give the name "1~

. notice, however , in ono °r tU“

old company.

tred. directories th.t So«r «»“• u '1T“ “

a manufacturer of Bogardes steel roller .ills.

I write, therefore, te eel the *»•«“ “ ^ Sdi.ee whether these ere fee Bogarde. pei.t.lU • wishes t. grind esrhon hl.oh into a thiah llq.ld and deeirea to hare the hl«o* ground or-

ceedingly fine.

V,- HI you kindly lei me hear from y

at your earliest convenience.

■jours very truly ,

Assistant to Ur. Edison.

may 16 th..

6nd a ah the pr letter. «»« i8

He device 8» thet ejeoe

,,,!«« eod record. the «« «

Youxe very truly.

,„»»* to »*. »“«•

ntlirv Of ^'ne V

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: .!«• «-*» „OTl«rt. P«»“- f"

,.«» “rfw* ®' '

. namely1 ,

18th. 1916

175

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May 18 th . 1916.

- % *»*.

' Uoodwara, *..*&•

~ °:t:: « - - « - - -7 r;w

— ‘ Mlso» to a.t

aent under their dohnstown Plant. **• "« 4o"

aave that quantity o . nW tbey want to repay

for Mitsui & 0--;8-O;7;:;°ly want to repay hi, this toluol this 5.180 gallons to Mr. 8T)are<Land still fill *heir °°n-

from the Woodward Plant ae i£ oan . Mitsui & Com-

«.* - ~ “ T‘"rr:.r:w — - —

- — ■ : ::: - - — - *“ * *-

ana still have suffioi next shipfflent day.

car for the Hercules Powder ^ aot only on ~

you will, there or . ^ that you can send to

tions from Mitsui ft Company « ^ &>ieo gallons- Pie-- not

Mr. Edison at any time on acoo ^ ^ ^ Eercule8 co.

tabs any chance of running *»* ^ ^ Edi8on tbi8 arrange-

when you ship any contents, and ship to

Thomas a* " make a shiPmen''*

and always notify me when y°^ vory truly

' ’ :rprr*~- '<?{i

178

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May 18th . 1916.

Dear Mr. Yieioher;

Your favor of the 16th instant he.Bbeenjho^n^to me by Mr. Meadow croft, and I criticism of the Car-

greasy surprised to have you offer any ^c“mthe 26th

iSjSof s then sent you was

"very satisfactory".

i-»* 0«,SS^*Sto'1»S?;?

stand how there could possibly lith exceeding great

She Phenol that we Bend you J8a£a only the very choice of the (•are. It is double distiliec ana i furnishing

distillation is f0^^a®S°HavyUwithii considerable quantity

a»rofS»S°?SS! 5.'i4tt* »» •!«>» «“ “"s “

Uavy Inspectors .

As to the price, let me say tha^I '°U

a higher price than I i have arrangements , such as we

larger auantities. and with whom 1 nave o Doubtless you

mad!! for a supply throughout the present ^year^u ^ pbenol> will remember that when Q0 and upwards from other customers, I was getting as much as $1. 00 and 0^ate price as I was look- 2J kSd ^VSitUrcf iASfinlss wPith you after the cessation of the war.

Yours very truly,

May 16th.

Mr. Giles, Smith, isnle till secretary,

Tacoma Commercial Club end Chamber of Commerce,

'j‘UOM» , V. ;v-;hi ngton .

Dear Mr. Smith:

I have received your favor of the Qth instant, together with a copy of the Tacoma book.

In the present state of the art I do not think it would be practical to make a phonograph that would be capable of doing acceptable work in making the announcements for so large a structure as the Stadium at Tacoma. I would not go so far as to say that it is impossible to produce such an instrument, but it would take a great \ieal of time and experiment, and probably would be a very coBtly affair. In any event, I am simply overwhelmed with work at this time and could not possibly undertake, to experiment upon it just now.

Yours very truly,

May 16th. 1916.

jfcx 20th. 1916.

Sometime ago we had a little correspondence with a gentleman of your staff, who hskea Mr. Edison if he could fur¬ nish the Institution with one of the larger type of tin foil phonographs that were made shortly after the invention of that instrument hy Mr. Edison. The correspondence is filed away, hut unfortunately we do not recall the name of the gentleman to whom we wrote.

•i'his gentleman tola Mr. Edison in his letter that the collection in the Smithsonian Institution was deficient in that it did not include the example of the type of phonograph to, and Mr. Edison said that he would try to get one and was successful wouia presont it to the Institution.

If this instrument id still desired, to make the collec- tion complete, ere read* to *»ieh it « »™ send foil direotloa. for the forrertine of the eame. KiadlJ *«■>» these instructions to me.

¥ours very truly,

Assistant to Mr, Edison.

210

20th. 1916.

COhSTDBIlglAL

Ur. John G. Hibhen,

Princeton University,

Princeton, h. J.

My dear Sir:

Keplying to your esteemed favor of the 17th instant, let me say that my doubt as to the Bazaar was founded upon a private report I received which showed that the original pro¬ moters of the Bazaar had a rather shady past.

I had them investigated.

I shal] help out by purchasing tickets for a number of my men.

With kind regards, I remain, yours

very truly,

Mr. William Maegerlein,

2701 Archer Avenue, Chicago, Ill.

Dear Sir:

X Deg to thank you for your favor of the fifth instant and also for the samples of prepared skin. I shall he very glad to have these tested for my diaphragms and other uses I Bhall communicate with you furthe

on the matter if I find they can he used to

advantage .

jry truly.

May 16th. 1916

Mr. Bhilip J. Boosevelt, Editor,

American Defense,

303 Fifth Avenue,

Hew York City.

Dear Mr. Boosevelt:

I have been working day and night the last three week6, and have just seen your favor of the 11th instant.

I shall have to ask you to excuse me from complying with your request for a statement to be published in the current issue of American Defense .

X am so busy on some speoial investiga¬ tions I am making that I only get four or five hours sleep a day, - some days not even that, - and I really cannot find time for anything else just now .

Yours very truly',

22z

May 16th . 1916

542 Fifth Avenue,

Ilew ICork City.

Bear Major Seaman:

I have le.n totting do, «“> nl8M “* 1“t ”

...he, hence there has h.eh d.l.J "» **11- W”

favor of th. Uth in.t.nt ha. J«et core to W

A„ overwhelming numher of re.iu.eteto eerv. oa

committeea , eh... — - - - 1 "

he exettBed. The aOT.«ra»oe of n, «a«e In °°

« -*« « • — ° rrTai oo.,u.d

. mll which adds ao «noh to W Man that al mail, wnicn therefore,

to avoid it wherever it ia possible. I«

ash to he excused in this case .

Dr. Hugo Schweitzer,

117 HudBon Street,

Hew York City.

Dear Dr. Schweitzer:

Allow me to thank you for the pamphlet on Aspirin which you sent to me in care of Mr. Meadoworoft.

It seems to me that what you should do is o co

- -

*«• — I *»“ til" “ lt, »r la¬ th. BWrtMU—*- “ ’

Yours

very truly.

Way 20th. 1916

Hon. Dun V. StephenB,

Houbo of Hepresentatives U. s Washington, D. C. ‘

sty a ear Mr. Stephens:

I have received your favor of the 17th instant, together with copy of the Stephens Bill on the subject of price maintenance.

i-or some weeks past I have been working about - 140 hours a week on some special experiments that are of vital importance to my business. I am not yet finished, nor do I expect to be for some weeks to come, and it will be impossible for mo to get away to appear before the Committee. I regret my inability to find time to help you in this part¬ icular case.

yours very truly,

231

ma 22rd= ISIS-

Deaf Sir;

I have been in correspondence with Dr. W. Kneoht of 47 i»9

b^ftcTuSVi^

snch process if I cab feel assured that he is a man of good reputa¬ tion.

~Tn our correspondence he has stated that he is a Chemical

Sxurineer of the federal jolyteotoioal School of Zurich end f_

the university of Zurich SealsoStates^nt he ne*r

tion of first chemiBt with the Usines au ^n wlth the French

,^V?L''£*££.<,SS£ Vlld' ?» <* «•»-

nical Manager .

H. Bi„. .. “?rSSJ°“aC0”Si6. li£ ■

and I am, therefore, T|n^^?lon ana formulae of the chemical pro¬ price he asks for the desoripti^ and ^ & made to his

cess above referred to is |EOO.OO l aamely £41-16-0. on Dondon City

Sf tf *»-* «*■* ““

has been forwarded to you.

If Dr. meant “ -"“J .“l-SiS’tnins^i JSSli'.Sk’j.o' *»*

sans; s.: ■sa s 'sfcsi tsssv#

SK.V.k * “m S»«y «»»■« lt t0

3*5 ££■&’ ;o-.n‘-°, .fix it.

tor Siting ,0. . littl. ««» txontlo. >»t th.nk- ing ,on «?&».« «x youx ..nxte.y, I x.»l», . ,

Yours very truly,

P.S. Duplicate of these letters

will be sent by a later steamer.

232

Dr. William Enecht,

47 Rue du Righi,

Zurloh, Switzerland.

Dear Sir:

Your favor of the 3rd instant to Ur. Meadoworoft has been shown to me by him.

X thank you for your attention, and will accept your offer to furnish to me for the sum of £300. 00 your good process of making Paraphenylenediamine, as mentioned in your letter.

In order to save time, I have procured a draft for the equivalent of $200.00, payable to your order, Buch draft being in the form of a check of the Union National Bank of .Newark, N. J., drawn on the London City and Midland Bank Ltd., London, England, and have sent it to the American Consul General at Zurich, aBking him to exchange the draft with you for the description of your process, which you pleaBe deliver to him in a sealed envelope for transmission to me.

You have given as reference the American Consul General, and I have taken you at your word and have made some inquiries in regard to yourself, as you are a stranger to me at this moment. If he sends me a satisfactory reply, - as X have no doubt he will, I Bhall be glad to conduct further business relations direct with you.

lours very truly,

P.S.

Duplicate of these letters will be sent by later steamer.

242

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May 23rd. 1916.

Henry Freund & Bro . .

65 IiaBBau Street,

Hew York City.

3entlemen :

Your furor of the 19th instant quoting price on the timing instrument has been received and submitted to Ur. Edison. He wishes' to thank you for your prompt response and desires me to say he may need one of these instruments later on.

Yours very truly.

Assistant to Mr. Edison.

L. 1916.

lilies Cora Elsie Kinzie,

Ihe Miller-Walle School of Spoedh Heading for the leaf and Hard of Hearing,

71 $stey Hall,

17th and Walnut Streets,

Philadelphia, Pa.

hear Uadam-.

I have reoeived you r favor of the 16th instant, and to tell you the truth I have never given any serious thought to the subject of c-poooh reading so far as I am per¬ sonally concerned' Ehere is little doubt that it is help¬ ful. generally speaking, to he able to understand conversa¬ tion through the eye.

Personally, however, I would not he able tp spare the time for training in thie direction. X am already working from eighteen to twenty hours a day on mat -ere require my close attention, and it would be simply impossible for me to spare the time to take a course of training, suoh

as you suggest.

lours very truly,

ir. S. C. Pratt, Chief of Burecm,

Dapartnie.il!. ':t Commerce ,

(Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Washington, D. C.

I have received your favor of the 16th instant, and in reply would say Chat I can only give you the result •if my own efforts in regard to the establishment of new

lb tries in the United States i

the result of the Europet

I have erected two Benzol and (Toluol absorbing plants, also three chemical works, two of which are for manufacturing Carbolic Acid, and the other for manufacturing Aniline Oil, Aniline Salt, Acetanllid, Acetate of Soda and Paraphenylenediamine . (These plants are all in successful operation at the present time. I have erected and operated them, to help out various industries, and I expect that these plants will be aB dead as Adam when the War is over.

Yours very truly.

Mr. Eugene II. Poes,

B> F. Sturtevant Company, 34 Oliver Street,

Boston, Mass.

In acknowledging receipt of your favo: of' the 20th instant, let me thank you for your

courtesy in sending me a copy of "Bussian Prohibi¬ tion" by Mr. Ernest Gordon. This is very inte ing reading, and I am much obliged to you for ing me the copy of it.

Mours very truly,

279

J / Hay 22nd. 1916.

A. B. Kennelly, Direotor,

Ke8eamssac^e?t4 Institute of Technology.

Boston, Maes.

dear Eennelly :

X have received your favor of the 18th instant, t rtlB0 che manuscript of the paper hy you and Ur. 0. B. rurig on tractive resistances to a motor delivery wagon different roads and at different speeds. This is a very paper . »1 »««« of * 10t of 800,1 '"“l'

„ glad to have the opportune, of lootlne ft ovor,

a you for “ a4’,‘“s °f tuKU°'“'

With kind regards, X remain.

Mr.

{. A. hOCkWOOd,

10 Church Court,

Springfield, Vt.

Pear Sir:

' 1 am In receipt of j’cur favor of the 20th instant, a, if feel greatly obliged that you have written to m to ash about our cylinder recordB.

There- iB absolutely not a word of truth in the rumor that we intend to discontinue the manufacture of the blue amberol recordB. On the contrary, we are pushing them harder than ever, Vi,,d to that end. we are constantly improving the quality of our product and striving to make of it the very best.

Some of the agents of our competitors are very un¬ scrupulous and industriously circulate false rumors in order to try and divert business their way.

X think you will find that our product in the cylinder

records is constantly improving#

292

May 27th. 1916.

■1ST. Edward 1. Hunt,

Forest Hills Gardens,

long Island, H. Y.

Bear Mr . Hunt :

I wish to confirm our telephone conversation this morning, and to repeat to you that Mr. Edison sayB that he does not witai ~.o he dragged into politics in any way, shape or manner, and, therefore, he cannot take any action in the matter referred to in the papers submitted by you. He declines to pass any opinion on the subject.

Many requests have been made to Mr. Edison to express opinions or to take some active interest in the campaign, but he has absolutely declined in all cases to be dragged into politics in any way.

I think it best to return all your papers, and enclose them herewith. Ho one but Mr. Edison and I have seen them, and I am going to return them to you by registered mail for safety sake.

Yours very truly,

Assistant to Mr. Edison.

Enclosures .

295

t/

May 26th. 1916.

. Vino out is. i’urnas,

522 Fifth S treat,

jfoi’.invilla, Ky.

years , anyone have be

, Y';lr :rii-Vt;r the 17th instant with description ®.®®? f,BJ,r”d t0 tir- Edison. He wishes us hl * -h?a iasa is vory ola. and has been

3“.D*: - ^ act number of people in the last thirty ,Tt.^ one of those ideas that is self-evident to with tag phonograph business, and there e'everuj. patents taken out in England and Germany 3 -ruot. ons o.t devices to permit its utilization.

? s-^Rtrumcrit has ISC threads to the inch, and, thcre- wonia play 7 1/2 minutes. There would ......I •.;n,.ty in making as instrument with 200 or even

jacls, but most mus.h.ssj selections dbe such that a •on disc is (satisfactory.

We return your description and drewing herewith.

Tours very truly,

Edison laboratory.

/•'

Enclosures.

309

May 39th. 1916.

Ur. Abraham Caban, Editor,

Jewish naily Forward,

Forward Building,

Hew York City.

Gear Sir:

Your favor of the 36th instant to Mr. Edison has been reoeived and submitted to him. He requests me to say that he will see you any day at the Laboratory.

I would suggest that you oall me up in advance of your coming, and then X shall be able to tell you if he will surely be here. Yours very truly.

Assistant to Mr. Edison.

Mr. JP. S. ford,

lijisoatine , Iowa .

Dear Sir:

I beg to acknowledge receipt of your very interest¬ ing favor of the 22nd instant, and wish to thank you for having written me so fully and frankly.

Ihere are a great many people, who, same aB yourself, liko the cylinder machine and rooords best. It is certainly a justification cf your view of the matter to he able to say that we are doing a large business in amberola machines and amborol records, notwithstanding the disc.

I take pleasure in sending you herewith our latest

catalogue of amberola machines and records.

u . . — -y

Youxb very truly.

Enclosures.

314

sot

May 39th.. 1916.

Mr. Alan R. Hawley, President,

Aero Olub of America,

397 Madison Avenue,

New York Oity.

Dear Sir:

Mr. Edison received your favor of the a5th instant, and also the copy of the special edition of the New York World which was delivered

to MWU w » »“

me to express his thanks to you.

He would like to have you send to me,

,„t » °* *“ *“•* M1'

„o» of World! **>» “ "1*“° “

serve for his personal files.

lours very truly.

Assistant to Mr. Edison.

325

St. Louis, Mo.

Dear Ur. Meubauer;

l am in r.oBip* ot your faTOr of «* «. «W* «»* h‘v' mlMe” “ ““ „,a tr.aU l» *«**> « _

,111 M««l» »*• » »10“ ““U“tl

„ „ „oo*a or — • *** «*" *“ *“» •“**

„ «« » «»• «•<* l“ tt* ima*’ ’ ‘ to the dealer from whom you bought the “

it exchanged for a good one. Vie mahe *00

, anv xeo0rds exchanged for this particular

any charge. satis-

,. ™* all •" " “

yours very truly.

336

Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Pres.,

Columbia University in the City of Hew York, Hew York City.

Dear Dr, Butler:

Replying to your esteemed favor of the 33nd Instant, let me say that I take pleasure in aocepting the Invitation to become a member of the Honorary Committee of Americans to aid in the restoration of the University of Louvain on the termination of the European War .

With kind regards, I remain,

Your 8 very truly.

337

May 39th. I'll

Dr. John G. Hih'oen, President,

Prinoeton University,

Princeton, IT. J.

My dear Dr. Hibhens

I have reoeived your favor of the 36th in¬ stant, in regard to the Allies Bazaar, and would say that since I last wrote you I have written to Mr. C.A. Coffin that I to uld donate a phonograph, and that I have made arrangements to have attendants at the Bazaar from start to finish to give recitals frequently.

I am willing to donate a Dictating Machine also, and. have asked Mr. Nelson 0. Durand, the Manager of our Dictating Machine Department to get into oom- munication with you and to arrange the necessary de¬ tails.

With kind regards, I remain.

Yours sincerely,

339

Gentlemen! . ._d me your favor of the 15tb

U: •■*«* *”“* tM PM»Ol 1. »0®4

» - •«-* *tot — “-”4 “

1* »w — •<* “ °°1‘ 91 190t„ tMt ««. !■ *“ •Ue’“"

««• 1 *•*'*• 01 °T”; „ »«*«»•«“

... ** -» o°® ; «* 1111 °”

M *• "*» °“° 10B PM»ol no- «•

.voo'J. a-9*”1 “ ” under «» *«*14

^ - «*• “iMi ”*“z» ««• « “*• — * iu,r * 1 •“ ^ rzxz ^ » — > * -*1

dirt ii. 0iv« -1 w0

to Japan, ,0 on pure Phenol W «» I0^

,•„. ...» *“» * ’ Sa„ are «*T rigid.

w -the Government.

loure very

truly ,

340

May 51. 1916.

Mrs. Marion E. Oeser.

Postlagernd, Neuenburg.

Baden. Germany.

Bear Mrs. Oeeer:

Received your wireless meeaage and showed it to Mr. Edison. Glad you are improving from your illness. dia not understand what you meant by

the words -don't forget", unless it meant your remittances had. failed to reach you. I took the matter up with the bank, and they say they have been advised that January and February payments reached Ereiburg, hut have not heard of the receipt of March. They are tracing it.

On May 27th- our hank transferred to you

April and May. I hope these will reach you safelyand

find you quite well again, ***■

r J 3

. father iB well and busy as v

Yours very truly.

Secretary.

357

June 1st. 1916.

! spany i ‘'iorkOity,

Gent lams n :

Referring to j Ur. Stein, this morning Chemical Company were <> quality of our produce, phonea the Chief angina vestigate this j

•.j^vsrss^Srfsr

USLSLr

o-p tbs Plant end asked him to in- nmciiataiy .

ion with the

I Works, and

II extent in a v rrom our works

must have right when they

. . - lnt

“Ul 14

lift ironin A i »'i tal I? & f ' * rpneral SuTJsrintenderit of tne 1

rn regard to quality, the Getori .

.f the 2 «5i« "tS 5»k : ;

yours very truly,

t ..irlnteudent

;hicf '.'ngineer, •e now shipping

Assistant, to

367

Tariff Commission League

133S First National Bank Chicago, in.

Building,

Attention H. H gross

Dear Sir: - -

Referring to yo„ favor t6. ^ •tot, let ,.y that X believe i. nniver.al oompuleory Milton elation for every yoeng above eighteen year, of ege. The flr.t period to be for elx „o»th. ana thereafter one .oath for eaoh year for six years.

I would not oomplioate this with any or schooling as suggested by you.

Yours very truly.

l

rewards

Mr. H. B. Brougham,

% Public ledger.

Independence Square,

Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Mr. Brougham:

In reply to your favor of the 30th ultimo, let me say that any good motion picture camera taking forty pictures per second couia no used, and the right picture from the many ex¬ posures could he selected and enlarged for the purpose you mention.

iours very truly, ^

Juno 1st. 1916.

June 2nd. 1916.

ttr. W. Herman Greul, Secretary,

CO’mmittee of Ten,

52 Broadway,

Bew York City.

Pear Sir;

Your favor of the 29th ultimo, and alBO your tiiegr'cuj! came to hand. _A.s requested by you I sent a to-le grain to the Seoretary of War. it was a pretty strong one, perhaps too strong-, but I am mad olear through to think that a Amerioan should be bo ignorant as to be oohnected, directly or indirectly, with such an astounding proposal.

The greatest corse that a workman haB to contend «vi fch 1b an inefficiently managed ahop^ and yet workmen oan- t ot see it. - ^ - -

Youre very truly.

151 ' 4 'Massachusetts institute of Technology,

Boston, Mass.

My dear Kennelly:

Your kind note of the 27th ultimo is much ap¬ preciated, a^well as the invitation to attend the open¬ ing ceremony and banquet of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on June 13th and 14th.

For some weeks past I have been extremely busy day and night on some very important investigations that are of vital interest to my business. I am right in toe midst of the work, and it is out of the question for me to be away from the laboratory just now.

I would like to attend the affair, but am obliged to deny myself the privilege and pleasure. _

With kind regards, I remain,^

Yours very-truly.

June 2nd. 1916 #

637 raison Avenue

New York city.

^ Jeer Mademoiselle:

18thnuft^®^eforeUthis

' °“r’ °'n “• MooMaVJwSsoiSntS""* on «... eJtl&J10”®

• .iuof;1sir.?s.-.r;i.v;

!‘L«SC°? *to* »« ■“>»••

- wl<Ufc cvx^iBte .

^ixh. klu^sst TflffnxAn ,

S"4*’ “a M1 «“« «®.0, I ronam. Yours very truly.

Assistant to Mr. Edison. ')

Hon. B. K. Tillman,

H. S. Senate,

Washington, p. c.

My dear Hr. Tillman:

Committee in Laboratory.

3 somewhat disappointed at the action of the House Naval 3t suggesting a little more money for the ilpe Omental

The plans were jade for a works which, when completed and fally equipped, would o«?st five millions of dollars, but the mLiSum construction would boat not less them one and a half millions it to LvS?nire at *** f million after completionoftheiiniLn

to lay in a Bupply of materials and start operating.

„ Jor quick action, it is necessary to have a considerable stock of supplies of every kind in order that there shall be no de~ lay when the Naval authorities want results quickly, especially if WOri 24 hoursdaily with three shml ofmen, making it possible to accomplish in thirty days what would eanorAn v require three months with one shift of men. in fact with the tool a praposed and -the supplies I believe it couid be SJ to fifteen

As to the amount of work to be done and the extension of buildings and machinery to the full extent of the plans and the further sums of money required, all this will, of course, depend upon the de¬ mands made by the Naval authorities.

the United States of America desires that its fivhtine machinery be kept up to date and not excelled or even approached bf nation, so as to get machinery that his been tho?- 8 tandardized and so that duplicates can be obtained at low CostB from oompetative manufacturing establishments, then the 18 0n}y P°ssibl-° way this object oln be attained, but whatever you do, vote at least two million. If this is impossible it would be better to dropjli^th-in^-srtpg ether.

Tours very truly.

418

jttno 6th. 1916.

me. Elsa Gregori,

14.82 Bnoadway,

Kew York t>ity.

Dear utae . Ciregori:

t received your favor of the first Instant, and have replyl»6 to ear. »tll the trim r.oord. of Sls«or Galileo dasparrl next reo.lred an. eho.n to Hr.

I find that a report haB been eent to Hr. Hi H. or,

the nan^or of our Eeooralos Bepertoent i» »»" *”* Cltr’ “4 undoubtedly he hae oe-unloat.d v.ith you In the ratter.

Yours very truly.

Assist® t to Mr. Edison.

442

June 6th. 1916.

Miss J. e. Hoey,

$ She Cairo,

Washington, D. C.

Sear Madam;

Your favor of the 30th ultimo has been reooived and I beg to assure you that 1 am always ready to consider suggest¬ ions. from our friends, and they are always accepted in the spirit in which they are offered. I very much appreciate your kind interest in the Diamond Diso Phonograph.

Set me Bay in regard to an automatic winder that we must get power from some source to wind up the mechanism of the instrument , end Just now we are trying out an electrical motor for that purpose. There are many more difficulties about this than you think, but we are keeping at it,, and trust that . we may finally get good results.

A3 to the scratching sound on some of the records, let me say that we have recently made a change in the material used in, their manufacture, and 1 think you will find that the records which will come out in the Pall of this year will be far better in that respect than those previously made.

Yours veryjtrulyT

44a

June S-'sh. 1916,

The Hayden Chemical Works.

136 William Street,

Hew York City.

Gentlemen :

1 regret to learn from your favor of the 31st ult¬ imo that there have been any leaking cans forwarded to .you, from my Phenol Plant. I requested the chief Engineer- to investigate this matter, and he communicated with your faotory. It seems that thore has been a few cans that have leaked, but they were all right when they stood on our floor.

I have rather come to the conclusion that the trouble has been that the Phenol was delivered to your truck drivers be¬ fore it had properly crystallized, and perhaps there may have been a little rough handling, which started the seams- in the cans, However, I have given instructions to the faotory to hold the material until it has solidified, and have also asked cur people to give special attention to inspecting eaoh can.

Trusting that you will have no further inconvenienoe in this r aspect, I remain,

Yours very truly,

462

‘ ™°?e *• Randolph, Sec'y.,

Now Brunswick, U. j.

Bear Sir;

I have received your favor of the 1st instant, for which please accept my thanks. Allow me to express my appreciation of the compliment that haa teeu pai4 me in electing me an honorary member of the Old Time Telegraphers Association of New Brunswiok.

I take pleasure in signifying my acceptance and beg you will extend my expressions of thanks and appreciation to your association.

Yours very truly.

470

Mr. D. H. Opayke,

$ Woodward Iron Company,

Woodward, Ala.

I reoeived your favor of the 1st instant and would have replied sooner, but unfortunately was unable to do so because I was waiting to hear from the Benzol whioh MitBUi & Company turned over to us in drums, for whioh we are to let them have 10,000 gallons pure Benzol from the woodward Plant.

£ suppose you are perhaps wondering how it happened.

The fact is, Mitsui & Company bought some Benzol from another oonoem, and had it sold, but the customer went baok on them,, and railroad demurrage was eating them up. They asked Mr. EdiBon if he would accept the lot, which is about 10,000 gallons and let them (Mitsui & Company) take in exohange 10,000 gallons from the Woodward Plant.

The Benzol in drums only Just oame in to our place at Silver lake. It iB all right, therefore, for you to let Mitsui i company have 10,000 gallons, and then you will oontinue ship-

I have telegraphed asking you to ship a oarload of Solvent naphtha to Bayway Chemical Company, Bayway, M. J., and eo have it free from water. I hope that you have been able to make an early shipment of this.

Assistant to Mr. Edison.

486

Mr. Mark Workman, President,

Dominion Iron & Steel Company,

Montreal, Canada.

Dear Mr. workman:

I am sorry for the delay in the matter of the con¬ tract. I wrote jou. a note about the cause of it a few days ago. There has-been a little delay on both sides, but the spirit of the agreement is being carried out by shipments and payments for Benzol from your plant. It remains, therefore, only to settle upon the terms of the contract.

The agreement that your Company submitted was not quite in accordance with the arrangement covered by the under¬ standing between. Mr . Plummer and myself. That understanding was to the effect that I should take 20,000 gallons of Benzol a month from February to Deoember, 1916 at 26 4 per gallon and an additional 6,000 gallons for the same period at 59^ per gal¬ lon. This did not disturb the option contract for the remainder of the three years.

I have, therefore, had the contract re-drawn by my legal Department and enolose two copies herewith, together with the agreement submitted by your Company.

If .agreeable, therefore, will you please sign this ««•/ agreement in duplicate and send it to me, and I will return one oopy to you duly exeouted by myself.

Yours very truly,

Enclosures .

Juno 9th. 1916.

1'he Hayden Chemical Works,

136 William Street,

Ifew York City. Attention of Mr. G. Simon

Gentlemen:

I received your favor of the sixth instant refer¬ ring further to your complaint about Carbolic Acid ariving at your factory in some oases with leaky oans. This matter has (.disturbed me quite a little, and I had the matter thor- ougKly investigated.

After a good deal of investigation we traced the trouble baok to the manufacturers of the Bheet iron oans.

It appears that the manufacturers had recently commenced to make these oans entirely by machinery, instead of making them by hand as they formerly did, and we convinced them on experiment that the machine made can was not as good as the hand made can. We explained to them what a lot of trouble it has caused us, and they have agreed now tu furnish us with the hand made cans. These will be coming along now in a few days, and I sincerely hope that you will not experience any further trouble on this account.

In the meantime, let me say that I have instructed our Accounting Department to send you a credit for the 46 pounds shortage covered bj your memorandum of the sixth in¬ stant.

Yours very truly,

490

Dear Mr . Speirs :

KP. Edison wishes to obtain a hook called "Ihe natural method of voice production" by Dr.

Ployd S. Mackey. It Is published by Charles Scribner * sons. Will you please get this end send it to me.

Yours very truly.

Assistant to Mr. Edison.

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June loth. 1915

Mr. Ben. Hollander,

5* A. Hollander & Bolts,

Newark, H. J.

My dear Mr. Hollander:

I am sending to you under separate cover (by Registered Mai] so that it- will not get lost) a sample of Para Amido Phenol, which is marked "Special", The reason I marked it special is beoause it rep¬ resents the Para Amido phenol that we will manufacture regularly when the new plant is built.

This material ought to be very good, for it iB very careful] made, and is very pure and strong. I want to ask you to kindly have a special test made of this sample, apart from everything else and let me 'mow as quickly as you can how you find it.

You will be helping yourself as well as Mr. Edison if you have this done right away. He 4b working hard to hurry the erection of the plant, so that you and others may be able to get a supply of this material.

'fours very truly,

iistant to Mr. Edison.

500

Juno loth. 1916.

Mr. Stanley Baggett,

99 John street,

Hew York City.

Bear Sir:

iot tao say in reply to your favor of the 7tli instant that I cannot reduce the price of the Aniline oil supplied to you under our contract, for the reason that at the time I made the contraot with you my supplies had teen bought at very high prices.

Business could not possibly bo conducted on any suoh basis suoh as you suggest in your letter. You were quite well aware that the manufsu taring of .jiiline Oil was a gamble, and you had as good a chance a3 1 had to placo contracts to cover yourself up to the extent of your

Yours v

rery truly,-

504

Hr. John Bacon, Jr.,

jc EdiBon Benzol Plant,

' Johnstown, Pa.

I sent you the following telegram this morning:

"Please get ready for shipment five thousand gallons pure toluol in drums. See arums are clean. Mailing shipping in¬ structions today."

Will you please Bhip these 5,000 gallons of pure Toluol to E. I. Du Pont ae Hemours & Company, Barksdale,

Wis. Please mark eaoh drum as follows:

Order Ho. 250060-A-Beq. 9996 l/2 - HB.

Please he very particular to comply w.ith the above

“Has! 2 2WSS1 St SJS.SfS*!:™

gallons .

yours very truly.

516

June 13th. 1916.

Mr. John J. Carty,

16 Bey Street,

Hew York City.

My dear Mr. Carty:

I feel somewhat guilty in having unconsciously mis¬ led you disregard to my participating in the program for to¬ morrow night.

For the last seven weeks I have been concentrating

practically all «^^aJj^aS22w}°to b^conduotfd immediate- special campaign that was n?£aaddi£ion to this and the care of

S « ^^e£ee£SetSiA stalffticnV^hercheSl SLT S directions.

planned to leave my time open, &o “ gixed up on

STtaS S“JeaJeSonro?the Technology Alumni, and had dis¬ posed of my time otherwise.

1 regret very mwji ]£ S^SSSSeSSoee?4 could

you will kindly excuse me jnier tte a few words in the

have done, -any way, wouid have heento ®£anoimcedi and j couia telephone. My deafness has grow ^afraid the embarrass-

of your undi 9feS;nInf I w^ro^f^you'my congratulations upon Buoh a tremendous achievement.

With kind regards and all good wishes, X remain.

Yours very truly,-

517

4^2.

American Oil & Supply Company, 62 Xafayette Street,

Hewark , H. J.

I have lata out ana am now installing an. eiaaition to my chemical plant, in which I am going to make Para Amiao Phenol. As far as X can see now, tvs ought to he able to begin aeliveries in five or sir weeks, ana I want to assure you that the quality of the Para Amiao phenol that I

will furnish will be equal to the best. _

Yours very tru.l-yf'’”” ^

CX —

518

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June 12th. 1916.

Iflne. Jane Arctowska,

% polish Victims Belief Fund,

33 'Jest 42nd Street,

Hew York City.

Dear M&dam:

I have received your favor of the fifth instant, and regret to say that I shall not he able to accede to your request, 'i'he fact is, I am withdrawing as much as possible from matters of a public or semi-public nature, as the appear- anoe of my name on any committee brings upon me an avalanche of mail which addB to my already heavy burden. let me say that I shall be glad to send $26.00 to the PoliBh victims Relief Fund if I knew the proper person to whom it should be sent .

Yours very truly,

June ISth. 1916.

5p. Harrv I. Keefer and Mr. Samuel H. Keefer, 143 north Fifth Street, sunhury. Pa.

Dear young friends :

I received your favor of the first instant also copy of the May number of the "Sunburian High", as well as the copies of the Sunbury Daily Item. These are all very interesting, and helpful in making history of the first three wire plant, which was the one installed at Sunbury.

you have certainly been very persevering, and I congratulate you on the foot that you have done a good piece of work.

Concerning your desire to see me, let me say that if you are ever coming down this way, please call in and ask for Hr. Meodoworoft, and he will see to it that, you have an opportunity of meeting me personally. let me suggest, how¬ ever, that you send Mr. Meadowcroft a line two days in advance of your ooming so that he could notify you in case I could

not be here.

yours very truly,

June 13th. 1916.

j

Hon. B. E. Tillman,

U. S . Senate,

Washington, D.C.

My dear Mar. Tillman:

I si end you the enclosed printed matter which will he self-oxplan.-tory.

These attempts to prevent efficiency will he a ser? thing for preparedness if they become law. They will l -aper every Government work.

One of the greatest curses that a workman has to contend with is an inefficiently managed workshop. It is the efficient shop that makes profit and pays good wages and can afford to do so. There are many operations where, for instance!*, twenty motions are necessary to obtain a certain result. In late years, experts have been studying these motions and by certain changes have reduced them to eight or ten, as the case may be, and with Ibbs fatigue to the workman. Thus, the product is greatly cheapened by discard¬ ing useless motions. This saving increases the earnings and permits givir;. ho v tar wages, whereas the inefficient shop, not being abV- to compete, must reduce wagee.

If this country is ever to have efficiency, such bills should in no event be passed.

Sours very truly,

June 14th. 1916.

L b b

l;i teui Company, limited,

25 Kadis on venue,

ji.iv;' YorkCity, Attention of Mr. Takeki.

Iw«t Mr, Takaki:

In regard to the two earloads of Benzol contained in drums, which vie recently received from you at our Silver lake Plant, I am sorry to bo obliged to make an unfavorable report. I have just received the following from the Manager of our Plant at Silver lake:

"Yesterday we concluded unloading two oars of Benzol in drums shipped us by Mitsui & Company for the use of the Plant here . A number of the drums are partly filled, some are empty, and the majority of them show leakage from long handling. A representative sample of the entire lot was given to Mr. Kammorhoff for test, and it showB that 90# distilled at 2.3, tfhich is a very low grade and lower than we have been accustomed to use for Aniline and impossible for use in Carbolic Acid.

"When our storage tanks are in condition to receive the same, I will advise you the cost of handling the Benzol under these conditions, as compared with tank cars, and as accurately as possible an estimated value of this grade of Benzol as compared with, what we used in Aniline".

Yon will notice from the above that they unloaded the Arums from the two oars, but they have not yet emptied the drums i.nto our tanks- As soon as this has been done I Bhall give you full report, as I suppose you will want to make claim against tho people who sold you the Benzol.

Yours very truly,

ti'Vi ■

Assistant to Mr. Edison.

June IStli. 1916,

01wl5,IS*; ». ».

Bear Sir:

I bos t» acknowledge receipt of your favor of the ninth to. tint, and also to thank you for your kind- invitation to witness the automobile races at night on June 17th .

I shall hops to hath the ploaaoi. of aoo.ptlag Invitation, one W .If. I *«■ •— « "

Yours verytruly,

can.

555

K. H. Parsons,

17 Charles Street,

Hot York City.

Dear c*

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this, please lat dyeing furs black.

ParapkenyleneOiaaine is used

Yours very truly,

Edison laboratory.

580

June 16th. 1916.

Attention of Mr. Herbert E. Smith.

Your favor of the 12th instant asking the present status of our Ifap hthaline cbntrac t has been received. I tad hoped before now to have been able to make a contract for a year, but so far the matter has uo"t 1)6611 "to a suoc©ss£u3. issue*

At the present moment we have no oontract for naphthaline Slakes, but I hhve no doubt we shall be able to arrange a contract as soon as we oan \urrlve at 'a definite basis as to quality, the trouble has' been that we have been making It too fast. ®y.B? d0“

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the market for a uniform white product.

I have had a talk with Ur. Mason about this.andhaverequest-

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getting .

I regret to say that the shipment of naphthaline that was made to the Pacific Coast was off color, and the customer out there re¬ used to reoeive it. She freight one way amounted to °ye7jS00.00 ana,

we tod rlas^ !i expect, as the matter has been settled on payment of $516.10, comprised of the following items:

Allowande on 06,110 lbs. Haphthaline at U per lb. $361.10 Arbitration fees to Mr. W. £• Cohoe 5<

Arbitration fee for the umpire 25.

Eor incidental expenses ^BlSTT

1 am willing to stand my half of this, and presume that you will be. willing to stand the other half.

Si8 8

Juae 19th. 1916.

78 Baefcman Street

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haSf^enatoeeend £'*%£ tw° s^Pn*nts,

£ 5-

■I0 "» to st“a“* « «u avas s^'"4" £&v&,310

!Sf^lsi5gge3HaS

Yours very truly.

606

>•' / Juno M. 1916.

Hew York Quinine & Chemioal 7/orks, Ita.,

114 T/llliam Street,

New York City.

u-entlenen:

I have received your invoioe aatea June 16, 1916 covering 6300 pounds Aniline oil "Returned" hut am entirely unable to understand why you did not receive ana aooept this shipment, it being a portion of the material contraoted for uy you under dato of Ootober 16, 1916.

X have refused to reoeive this tshipmont as the goods we re purchased by and delivered to you under said contract and I have no Interest in them except to reoeive payment therefor at the agreed prioe.

fill you please inform me why you are attempting to return this ahiiJment, and greatly oblige.

Yours truly,

June 21st. 1916.

MiSB Helen Beholder,

148 West 111th Street,

Hew York City,

hear Miss Scholder:

X have received your note of the 19th instant, and must apologize for not having re¬ plied to your former letter. The trouble is Ur. Edison is on one of his ana day campaigns

on improving the manufacturing technique of the record, and he hoe practically laid aside ell other matters for the time being. It fill, there¬ fore, not be possible just non to got any final decision from him about your making .a record.

Yours very truly,

successful ' operation -our WJBorpAipn^owers- at, the ,:he Aniline';ana CarDoliii^iantfe aiP **. 3. Sheref or e , all ' out waste -Hauers now pans -into.. thi sewer. Van« ati B^es .through tbe Absorption.

sna uothinB ob jectionable'- paces' from the :plant, ^,. Yours'v&Ty' ■truly,- :

620

Mr. S. 1). Aravexils,

West Orange, H* J»

Dear Sir:

Replying to your favor of the 16th in¬ stant, let me say that all the property which we have hero was purchased by us for further ex¬ tensions of our factory, therefore, if we should give away any portion of the property it would disturb our plans for the future.

I regret to say, therefore, that I shall not be able to donate to your cause a site for a church.

Yours very truly,

Juno 20th. 1916.

is'mo. Erida ■ Benneche , I

f- Hotel Wellington,

Hew York" City'.

.Desr Madame :

I have received your favor of the 17th instant to which I oan only say in reply that there is evidently a mis¬ understanding .

'lie have never issued any records of selections sung '0.7 you. You recorded one selection sometime ago, hut this was i*ct accepted by our Committee , and no replicas were ever made.

It is true that in our record catalogue of November, 1916, your name appeared among the "Artists who make records", hilt this was purely e mistake ofi the part of our Advertising iepartmeat, where catalogues are made up.

As to the letter from Mr. J. E. McCraken, Manager of the Edison Shop in San Eranoisoo, I oannot offer any explanation at all. He has no Edison records bearing a seleetionof yours, aB we have nevor issued any. It is up to him to offer an explana¬ tion of his letter to you.

Personally, I regret that any suoli misunderstanding should have arisen, but as you will see it has been no fault of

mine.

Yours very truly,,

Q-Cet*>

626

June 20th. 1916.

•if. A . L. Hiker, Vice President,

"'he Locomobile Company of America,

Bridgeport, Conn.

I).-..- iv Mr. Hiker:

In reply to yours of the 16th instant, lot m aay that I have just ordered a Locomobile Limousine, which .1 oxpoct to ubs for a town car.

I wanted a touring car having 11" dead clearance. The Simplex people say that they have one, or think they can get ono that answers this spepi-fical Yours very truly, -

boat ion.

£2«

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Juno S0r4. IS 16.

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Yours very truly-s

Che World,

Hew York City.

Gentlemen:

X consider it an honor to contribute my donation to the Statue of liberty Illuminati Itrnd. Every American should rally to the su.pp< of such a patriotic movement, liberty onsbrout in darkneBB every night can never be the iruspij tion she should be. I earnestly hope that eve; success will attend the World's canpaign for t: $30,000. fund. —•

June 24th. 1916.

Hew York winluc- and Chemical Works, limited,

114 William Street,

Hew York City.

Gentlemen :

Your favor of the 22nd instant has been received.

1 must confess X cannot understand why the June sixth ship¬ ment of Aniline Oil should be found unsatisfactory.

I am exceedingly busy, and, therefore, could not get over to your works, but I would very much like to have demonstrated to. me personally the unsuitability of the re¬ jected deliveries. I should be very glad to have your Chemist come over to Orange to make the demonstration, if he will kindly do no-

Yours very truly, ?

652

s 84th. 1916'

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as confidential. _ .,ruly,

Yours very

Mitsui & Company, limited,

26 Madison Avenue,

New Tori City. Attention of Mr. Takalci.

0 ant lemons

Once more we unfortunately got in trouble with a oar of Naphthaline Flakes, which was shipped out to the Pacific Coast on tho order of the American Oil & Supply Company,

When th9 oar arrived, at San Francisco the customer re¬ fused to receive it on the ground, that it was not pure white. The freight one way was about $620.00, and it would have cost that much more to bring it hack. The American $>il & Supply Company tried to sell it out there, but were not successful, and finally it was agreed that the matter should be submitted to arbitration.

The arbitration was hud, and we were fortunate enough to escape at what we consider a reasonable figure, namely, hf per pound, beside the coBt of the arbitration. The total amount being $616.10. We, therefore, send you herewith the charge hill of the American Oil & Supply Company for this amount. We have communicated with the Woodward. Iron Company and eap3.ai.ned the whole matter to them. They have agreed with us in taking this action, and have given their con¬ sent that -half of this $516.10 shall be oharged to them. Will you please, therefore, charge them accordingly.

Mr. 2d is on believes he has now arranged matters so that there .will bo no repetition of tronbl e on account of Naphthaline Flakes, as ho has given instructions to re -sublime all that are made at Woodward. This re-subliming brings out the material to a pure white.

Yours very truly,

:ry !>• Sj4«j

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Dear Mr . Syler.;

I have iooeived your favor of the 24th insta „klc» I-'W. «.* * •"* -» °f “t0"*t “*

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let me Bay to you in reply that there are me

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June 29th, 19X6.

Union: Rational Bank,

Remark, N< J.

Gentlemen:

I would he .pleased to have you open a letter of credit for 6 .months, payable $300. per month to Marion E. Oecer Freiburg, Germany. Kindly notify :me when these .payment e are made and I will send y° Chech for eame. Kindly transmit same by wire-lees.

Your* very truly,

General Letterbook Series Letterbook, LB-113 (1916)

This letterbook covers the period June-September 1916. Most of the correspondence is by Edison and William H. Meadowcroft. Included are letters pertaining to Edison’s benzol absorbing plants and other chemical manufacturing interests. Other documents concern the technical and commercial development of Edison’s phonograph business, his reading habits, and research at the West Orange laboratory. Among the correspondents are General Electric executive Charles A. Coffin, U.S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, industrialists Harvey S. Firestone and Samuel Insull, economist Irving Fisher, and representatives of Mitsui & Co.

The spine is stamped "Letters" and is marked "T.A.E. From June 30 - 1916- To Sept. 12 -1916- ." The number "51" also appears on the spine. The book contains 698 numbered pages and an index. Approximately 10 percent of the book has been selected.

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,or* in accordance with your plans you can cone over to the

ZL,r, loro. - * - - *

, , ». .111 WT. sows record. -d. lor «.»=

f01U1'“ . a -atifl+eotory arrangement with cur

tests if you can make a satis„ac

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■Jours very truly »

Assistant to Mr- Edif

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July lBt. 1916.

fi&rauel Insull, Esq . ,

72 West Adams Street ,

Chicago, Ill.

Hoar to. Insull :

BleaBe do not think that the matter of Miss Dora Gibson is being ignored. On the contrary, the trial record I wrote you about was made several weeks ago, but to. Edison has been on one of his characteristic day and night campaigns, and has only just had time to hear a bunch of the trial records that have been accumulated for him.

Ee has made a rather favorable oomment on Miss Gib¬ son's trial reoord, and thinks that we can possibly use her for tone tests, the matter has now been referred back to Waiter Miller to make further trials to see if we can utilize Miss Gibson's services in our phonograph work. I have written Mr, Miller to expedite it aB much -as he can.

lours very truly,

Assistant to to* Edison.

1916.

:.r- waiter H. Miller, Manager,

Thomas A. Bdison, Ino.,

79 Pifth Avenue,

Hew York City.

iear Mr. Miller:

Miss Mora Gibson made a trial record a few weeks ago, -rad Mr. liaison has recently heard it. Bis comment was:

"Pretty fair singer- Has some shake. Interpretation fair. Possibly could use for tone tests" .

Miss Gibson is a friend of Samuel Insull's sister ana I have hud several letters from Ur. Insull himself asking that ire would do what we oould for Miss Gibson- I hope, therefore, that you will go into this matter at your early convenience , as I shall be glad to make some sort of favorable report to Mr. Insull*

..ill you please keep me advised.

Yours very truly,

July 3rd.

w7 President

-irestone lire & Rubber Company ^kron, Ohio . ly’

3ear 'J.r. firestone:

In aooordanoe with our understanding at your

*“»» >.taday. I data fnatraot- “ a» factory to >«| . package of fir, poando of Paxa- Pkenyleneaiamine addreeo.d to yoa per.oaally. I tra.t lou ..111 rooolyo It In good ooaaon and that yoa may find it use i'ul in your business.

iet me remind you that it is poison, and that It ie not advisable to let it get on to the flesh where the skin Is broken.

Yours very truly,

July 3rd. 1916.

i|r> i'. A. Wallace, President,

E. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co.,

Wallingford, Conn.

V’osx Sir:

Your favor of the 30th ultimo to Ur. Edison was re¬ ceived and has had his personal attention. He wishes me to say that if you will call here at the laboratory he will see you on the matter mentioned in your letter.

He is usually here all day and every day. I would suggest, however, that when you get to Hew York you call me up on the telephone (907 Orange), and I will make an appoint¬ ment for you.

To oome out here it is best to take the laokawanna Railroad from Hew York, alighting from the train at Orange.

You oan then walk up one blook to the Main street and take a trolley for West Orange, whioh will bring you right to the laboratory door* When you oome, please ask to see me and I will attend to the rest.

Yours very truly,

Assistant to Ur. Edison.

46

July 3rd. 1916.

firestone Sire Company,

84 Bank^Street.^^ ^ Attention of Mr. Hanley, near Sir:

Replying io your telephone inquiry this morniJar^, 1 6poke to Mr. Edison and asked him the sizes of tires h..e would like to have you send in accordance with Mr. Eireston...e>s court¬ eous offer.

He would like '.o have them for his Simple'*, and there are two sizes, namely, 37 X 6" and 36 X 4 l/2”, «> clincher-.

She tires should he addressed to Thomas .k. Edison., Glenmont, Llewellyn Park, Orange, M. J.

Yours very truly,

Assistant to Mr. Edison.

July 3rd.

Ur. John Beirne,

% ’She 'Alii to Company,

Cleveland , Ohio .

Bear Sir :

Beplying to your favor of the 28th ultimo, let me say that I should prefer not to answer your question, as X do not want to get into the controversy on chain versus won

drive. .

Yours very truly.

6i

July 5th. 1916.

Harold Hurlbut ,

'aar Sir:

615 filers Building,

•Portland, Ore.

Y0Vr faVOr of *>• 29th ultimo to £dl8°n "aS b9e“ r®eeived, and he requests OS to say that if you are over visiting hew rh again, you can go to our discording lepart-

m£nf' *** -ther record of your voice, which can be sent over here if yCli «*«* it ^

sufficient improvement on ,h,.t yo« did before. Xours very truly,

Edison labors to ry.

July S*a.

Ur. Walter Wellman,

581 Went 161at b treat.

Hew York City.

Dear Sir*.

Your work the "German. Ilopuhlio" , is a an , ana I thank you for senain8 me a copy. It ie *

. 1+ 4 s evident that you state

all the official aooumente.it is eviaen

. „ 7 or mankina when

only the truth. It will be a napp., la. -

aaont e Eeouhlic as thexx iorm of the German people aaopt -

„ wtn ho wiaely read hy

Government, ana I hope your took

the Germans themselves.

Yours very truly.

73

1916.

July 7th. 1916,

Mrs. F. K. Lawson,

1706 Bhode Island Avenue,

Washington, D. C.

Dear Madam:

Your favor of the SOth ultimo to Mr- Edison has been received and submitted to him. He wishes me to say in reply that if you should at any time happen to be going to Hew fork City, you o ould make a record at our Recording Booms there. If you will let me know a day or two in ad¬ vance, if you happen to be making a trip to Hew York I will arrange with our people to make a trial record, which will be sent over to Orange.

Yours very truly.

Assistant to llr. Edison*

97

July 7 th. *97.6.

Sr. C. C. Clevenger,

Stephenson, »&•

Hear Six : instant,

pledging your *-ox of the

Xet *e a. that youx hind *oxds ~ * * ieai

D1BC and records have — ^

of pleasure and gratification, and I .is

for youx oourteous letter • ^ ^ ia the

•“ b r. * - ”ai>i* 10 “ 1 “om”llloe"C

you out ty suggesting an.

102

July 7th. 1916.

Hr. Charles Sohwager,

466 Bedford Avenue,

Brooklyn, B. Y.

Bear Sir:

Your favor of the third instant has been received. I am afraid it will be a long time before the Jew will reoeive justice from all nations. In time, when religious supersti¬ tion dies out, and all nations become republics, the Jew will obtain justice and be able to work out his destiny.

Yours very truly,

lOo

July 8 th. • 1916.

;>.i JPon'u de Jiamouw * Company, Wilmington, Del-

Attention of Mr E-. -

Hill •

Referring to . having no tank oar ■.il to you in drums*

' a oar load, which 1 "be aatisfaotor;

» ««» »* ~“»jssrsj

-t liberty, we will c? faBt ae we accumu- 1 »*— • tue

you

. tet^e Bay that we 144 : gal;

• Sa? 1weTdred^e more WgOj^J^al-

'*>££3 ss^'MSSfaiKS- — ” “

',;i| s.h out 200 gallons per aay. lQBS ^

'*r .«*-♦ f£3,““ ^5“'

til the eno o* tt.iB yea , quantity in each case bein^ are produc¬ es ^uary ^de^t our Plant ^ Inasmuch ^ a.

» thto ™ e^f to taow^hether it would he satisfac^. ^

• -rJ^SUs per

;ip 'whole SMgalloM Uore or^leSB^P^ ^ $ j,f c. B* toluol

3» ■>«,»*« contraot^whiohtB|y John8town, Pennsylvania .

yours very truly,

■ ■ .,

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Mr. W. 8. Andrews ,

% Consulting Engineering Department,

General Eleo'trio Company,

Schenectady, H. Y.

Dear Mr. Andrews:

I am going to ask you if you will kindly undertake a little commission for Mr. Edison, and the following will explain.

We understand that the General Electric Company is purchas¬ ing residue from the naphthas of the Cambria Steel Company's Benzol Plant, in order to obtain its Qumerone contents.

Ur« Edison also has a Benzol Plant, whioh is looated at the Cambria Steel Works at Johnstown, Pa., and we have the same kind of residue, containing Cumerone.

So far, Mr. Edison has not oontraoted for its sale, and he wants to ascertain if the General Electric Company wishes to negotiate for its purohase, and bn what basis. He would be much obliged if you will kindly see the proper parties about this end find out something definite about it.