EDISON (Thomas Alva, 1847-1931, American Inventor of the Phonograph)

Fine typed letter signed to Mr Casson (Herbert Newton, 1869-1951, Canadian journalist and author who wrote primarily about technology and business)thanking him for his letter and saying that it "gives me great pleasure after 50 years of labor to know that my Ediphone has made more effective the effors of so useful a man as yourself ..." and hoping that when he is next in "this Country you will come out and see me ...", 1 side A4, headed "From the Laboratory of Thomas A. Edison, Orange, NJ", 29th June

During his career as a journalist, Casson interviewed many of the most important men of the day including Presidents Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt) and Woodrow Wilson, the scientists Guglielmo Marconi, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, and Alexander Graham Bell.

Item Date:  1927

Stock No:  38056      £2250

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