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Gilder Lehrman Document Number: GLC02480.03

Title: to Friend Griffin

Author: Edison, Thomas A. (1847-1931)

Year: 1893/06/06

Place: Orange, New Jersey

Type of document: Autograph letter signed

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

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