Letter written by Alexander Graham Bell to his Parents. Cambridge, Mass., April 20th, 1879. Dear Papa and Mama:

Those horrid law-suits are drawing to a close and there can be no doubt in regard to the termination. If there is justice anywhere the case can not go against us. I shall know tomorrow whether we can publish Gray's Disclaimer of Invention or not. This will be a great step towards public confidence.

The National Bell Telephone Company will certainly want to examine you — and will probably communicate with you upon the subject very shortly. Could you arrange to come down to Boston if sent for in the course of a fortnight or three weeks? Could you bring Mama too?

If we can get through with our evidence within the next fortnight or so and obtain an injunction we could all return to Canada together for the month of May — in spite of the Bell Telephone Company and the lawyers.

The Solicitors of the Company want me to be in Boston now till the close of the suit — and won't allow me to remain quietly away from them. The Western Union have brought a Counter-suit against us which it is important to defeat if possible. The suit is not based upon a speaking Telephone — but upon a Receiving apparatus — containing a metallic diaphragm — capable of responding to tones of all pitch. I am engaged in a laborious search through the past literature of Science for references to defeat their claims.

Manuscript/Mixed Material Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Symonds Bell, April 20, 1879

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Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Symonds Bell, April 20, 1879