ABBREVIATIONS USED TO DESCRIBE DOCUMENTS

The following abbreviations describe the basic nature of the documents included in the first volume of The Papers of Thomas A. Edison:

In these descriptions the following meanings are assumed:

Document Accounts, agreements and contracts, bills and receipts, legal documents, memoranda, patent applications,Page lxii and published material, but excluding experimental notes, letters, and models

Draft A preliminary or unfinished version of a document or letter

Technical Note Technical notes or drawings not included in letters, legal documents, and the like

Letter Correspondence

Model An artifact, whether a patent model, production model, or other

The symbols may be followed in parentheses by one of these descriptive terms:

fragment Incomplete document, the missing part not found by editors

copy A version of a document made at the time of the creation of the document by the author or other associated party

transcript A version of a document made at a substantially later date than that of the original, by someone not directly associated with the creation of the document

photographic transcript A transcript of a document made photographically

historic photograph A photograph of an artifact no longer extant or no longer in its original form

abstract A condensation of a document

STANDARD REFERENCES AND JOURNALS

ARCHIVES AND REPOSITORIES

In general, repositories are identified according to the Library of Congress system of abbreviations. Parenthetical letters added to Library of Congress abbreviations have been supplied by the editors. Abbreviations contained entirely within parentheses have been created by the editors and appear without parentheses in citations.

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Page lxvMANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS AND COURT CASES

References to documents included in Thomas A. Edison Papers: A Selective Microfilm Edition (Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1985-) are followed by parenthetical citation of reel and frame of that work; for example, Cat. 1185:34, Accts. (TAEM 22:562). Documents found at NjWOE after contemporaneous material had been microfilmed will be filmed as a supplement of the next part of the microfilm edition. For (TAEM Supp. III), see Guide to Thomas A. Edison Papers, Part III.

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Quadruplex Case Citations

Volume 70 (Atlantic & Pacific v. Prescott & others)

• 1. Amended Bill of Complaint

• 2. Answer of Prescott

• 3. Answer of Edison

• 4. Answer of Western Union

• 5. Answer of Prescott to Amended Complaint

• 6. Plaintiff’s Exhibits 1 through Z.3Page lxvii

• 7. Testimony for Plaintiff (with index)

• 8. Exhibits Z.4 through Z.8

• 9. Plaintiff’s Rebuttal Witnesses (with index)

Volume 71 (Atlantic & Pacific v. Prescott & others)

• 1. Testimony for Defendants (with index)

• 2. Defendant’s Exhibits

Volume 72

• 1. “Priority of Invention,” American Law Register (Oct.-Nov. 1872)

• 2. Harrington & Edison v. Prescott, Prescott to Commissioner of Patents

• 3. Prescott against Wilber, Prescott’s Preferral of Charges

• 4. Prescott against Wilber, Prescott’s Brief

• 5. Prescott against Wilber, Statement and Brief of Wilber

• 6. Harrington & Edison v. Prescott, Argument for Prescott

• 7. Harrington & Edison v. Prescott, Argument for Edison

• 8. Harrington & Edison v. Prescott, Confidential Argument for Edison

• 9. Harrington & Edison v. Prescott, Argument for Edison

• 10. Harrington & Edison v. Prescott, Statement of Harrington

• 11. Harrington & Edison v. Prescott, Brief for Edison

• 12. Harrington & Edison v. Prescott, Brief for Harrington

• 13. Harrington & Edison v. Prescott, Reply for Harrington

• 14. Western Union v. Edison & Prescott, Answer of Edison

• 15. Rules of Practice (U.S. Patent Office, September 1875)

• 16. Harrington & Edison v. Prescott, Edison’s Affidavit

• 17. Telepost prospectus

• 18. Harrington & Edison v. Prescott, Argument for Prescott

Volume 73 (Atlantic & Pacific v. Prescott & others)

• 1. Findings Submitted by Defendant (annotated by judge)

• 2. Findings Submitted by Plaintiff (annotated by judge)

• 3. Plaintiff’s General Argument

• 4. Points for Plaintiff

• 5. Argument for Plaintiff (by Wheeler)

• 6. Brief for Plaintiff (by Latrobe)

• 7. Brief for Plaintiff (by Butler)

• 8. Brief for Plaintiff (by Hodges)

• 9. Argument for Plaintiff (by Myers)

• 10. Brief for Plaintiff (by Russell)

• 11. Defendant’s Proposed Findings

• 12. Suggested Points by Defendant

• 13. Defendant’s BriefPage lxviii

• 14. Argument for Defendant (by Lowrey)

• 15. Argument for Defendant (by Dickerson)

• 16. Decision by Judge Sanford

Telegraph Law Cases (TLC)

• 1. Western Union v. Harrington & others, Affidavits and Injunction

• 2. Western Union v. Harrington & others, Summons and Complaint

• 3. Edison & Harrington v. Western Union & others, Bill of Complaint

• 4. Edison & Harrington v. Western Union & Prescott, Bill of Complaint

• 5. Edison & Harrington v. Western Union & others, Brief for Complainant

• 6. Harrington & Edison v. Prescott, Reply of Prescott

• 7. Western Union v. Edison & Prescott, Bill of Complaint and Injunction