Edison, Thomas Alva, 1847-1931 to Friend Griffin

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GLC#
GLC02480.03-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
6 June 1893
Author/Creator
Edison, Thomas Alva, 1847-1931
Title
to Friend Griffin
Place Written
Orange, New Jersey
Pagination
Primary time period
Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
Sub-Era
The Gilded Age

Orders several motors. Comments on his financial situation, "I am poor and needy, so if you could manage to do a neat bit of philanthropy I would like to buy them at shop cost plus 10 percent profit." Written on stationary from the Laboratory of Thomas A. Edison. One black and white bust engraving of Thomas Edison included.

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