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Letter from Bevan Lawson to Volta Laboratory, undated

THE DICTAPHONE DICTAPHONE SALES CORPORATION COPY The Volta Laboratories, Washington, D. C. Gentlemen:

I have just been in telephone conversation with the gentleman who is in charge of your Museum in New York City, for the purpose of inquiring as to the location of the laboratory in which Chichester Bell and Charles Sumner {Begin deleted text}P{End deleted text} T aintor first experimented in the creation of the Graphophone.

This Corporation always has given tribute to the origination of the Graphophone in the laboratory of Alexander Graham Bell, and we would like to have the story from you, if you will be good enough to send it us.

Yours very truly, (Signed) Bevan Lawson, BL;AMC Promotion Sales Manager. P.S. We have always dwelt upon the understanding that these experiments were conducted in the Volta Laboratories in Washington, and this inquiry is to corroborate that belief, or to correct it. B. L. From Miss