Nov 04, 2010 - Sale 2228

Sale 2228 - Lot 54

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
EDISON, THOMAS. Signature and date, on a small card. Approximately 2 1/4x3 3/4 inches; mounted to a larger sheet; matted with letter. Np, [18]78

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with--letter from Edison to Sidney Bartlett, entirely in the hand of a secretary: "In regard to the Phonograph I would refer you to Chas. A. Cheever Tribune Bld, New York. They are not as yet capable of receiving lectures but will take in and give out musical sounds provided the mouth is within a short distance of the instrument." 4to, ruled paper; folds, fading to lower half of text and signature. Menlo Park, 5 Mar[ch] 1878.