EDISON THOMAS A Two Autograph Notes Signed Edison

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EDISON, THOMAS A. Two Autograph Notes Signed, "Edison," in pencil, each to Edison Laboratory inventor Miller Reese Hutchison ("Hutch"). The first, requesting "blue prints" for a chemical process. The second, requesting that a weld be done in a certain way. Each 1 page, 8vo, lined paper; folds, the second: complete separation at horizontal fold affecting text. Np, nd

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"Can you get blue prints for nitrating Benzol to Nitrobenzol from your friend up at Gov't works near Dover, NY? We want to make aniline oil--[t]here is no secret about it--if he can't, [t]ry Dupont, or have both refer you to machine shops who build nitrating pots."
The second note: "I think that as the flaw is [not] the weld, it looks to me that the part crystalized is steel & the silky part Norway--Have them weld the shaft of one piece of Norway--see me about it, want shape changed."