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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
- Width: 21 cm, Height: 27.4 cm
- 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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