Typed letter signed ("Thos A. Edison").
Orange (New Jersey), 19. V. 1923.
4to. 1 p.
€ 3,500.00
To the French inventor and engineer Édouard Belin (1876-1933), confirming the receipt of a photograph: "I am writing to acknowledge the receipt of your photograph which you have kindly inscribed for me. It is a very good picture of you and I have had it framed and it is hanging in my Library at the Laboratory".
Édouard Belin met Edison at least once and apparently made a good impression. The first transatlantic phototelegraphic connection based on Belin's invention called Bélinographe had been established in 1921.
On stationery with lithographed letterhead of the Edison laboratory: "From the Laboratory of Thomas A. Edison, Orange N.J.".
Somewhat browned; several pinholes and traces of former mounting on verso.