Tesla microfilm letters

[Michelinho]

G Scherff 1 #0086-0087-0088-0089-0090

G Scherff 1 #0086


New York, July 6th, 1899.
46 & 48 E. Houston Str..

Nikola Tesla, Esq.,
Colorado Springs, Colo.

Dear Mr. Tesla:

Mr. Uhlman reports that several parts of the second independent break, as the base, switch, brush-holder and pulley are nearing completion and that remaining castings will also soon be finished.

I inclose three bills, one of them from the Okonite Company for the large reel used to wind on the heavy cable which was around the room. This reel was obtained with the understanding that it was to be returned and to be paid for only in case of damage or breakage. It seems, therefore, that this bill has been sent by a mistake.

Respectfully,

Geo. Scherff.

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G Scherff 1 #0087


New York, July 7th, 1899.
46 & 48 E. Houston Str..

Nikola Tesla, Esq.,
Colorado Springs, Colo.

Dear Mr. Tesla:

The base and parts belonging thereto, as well as several minor parts of the break, Mr. Uhlman says, are now finished. The work on the break keeps all the men occupied.

Among the mail obtained to-day at the Waldorf was, besides journals, a circular announcing the next meeting of the Amer. Electro-Theraputic association and the inclosed appeal for aid.

Respectfully,

Geo. Scherff.

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G Scherff 1 #0088


New York, July 8th, 1899.
46 & 48 E. Houston Str.

Nikola Tesla, Esq.,
Colorado Springs, Colo.

Dear Mr. Tesla:

Mr. Uhlman says the parts of the second independent break which are finished up to date are the base, switch and all parts belonging to the base, also brush holders, pulley and cover. The remaining castings are nearly finished, and the armature, armature spider, commutator and disk are progressing rapidly.

The mail to-day consisted of the inclosed notice and an inquiry about electrical oscillators.

I send also a statement of the expenses for this week.

Respectfully,

Geo. Scherff.

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G Scherff 1 #0089


New York, July 11th, 1899.
46 & 48 E. Houston Str..

Mr. Nikola Tesla,
Colorado Springs, Colo.

Dear Mr. Tesla:

Mr. Uhlman reports that the two clockworks will be ready for shipment to-morrow morning, and that, as all the instrument makers are occupied on them, the work on the independent break is temporarily delayed.

The inclosed note from Mr. Lagelouze was just received. I have acknowledged its receipt to him and written that it would be immediately forwarded.

I send inclosed the telephone bill for this month.

Permit me also to call your attention to the rent for July, for which no check was sent.

Respectfully,

Geo. Scherff.

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G Scherff 1 #0090


New York, July 12th, 1899.
46 & 48 E. Houston Str..

Nikola Tesla, Esq.,
Colorado Springs, Colo.

Dear Mr. Tesla:

The two clockworks have been sent off to-day, and all the men are now working again on the independent break. The winding of the magnets, which was temporarily delayed so as to rush the clockworks, will be finished to-morrow, Mr. Uhlman thinks, and he says he will test the speed of the motor as soon as possible.

The mail of to-day contained, besides the inclosed letter and bill, an appeal for aid from Rev. J. H. McCullagh of Kentucky, to whom I have written that you are absent on a scientific expedition and that the matter would be submitted to you on your return.

Respectfully,

Geo. Scherff.

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[Michelinho]

G Scherff 1 #0091-0092-0093-0094-0095

G Scherff 1 #0091





Skipped hand written letter.

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G Scherff 1 #0092


New York, July 13th, 1899.
46 & 48 E. Houston Str.

Nikola Tesla, Esq.,
Colorado Springs, Colo.

Dear Mr. Tesla:

Mr. Uhlman reports that the work of the shop is on the pump, the ball-bearings, the shaft, the magnets, the magnet support casting and the armature, and that he is occupied on the design of the break with overflow feature.

No letters have been received to-day.

Respectfully,

Geo. Scherff.

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G Scherff 1 #0093


New York, July 14th, 1899.
46 & 48 E. Houston Str.

Nikola Tesla, Esq.,
Colorado Springs, Colo.

Dear Mr. Tesla:

All the men, Mr Uhlman says, are still occupied on the second independent break.

A representative of the Audit Company, whose card is inclosed, called to-day to obtain the names of the officers of the Nikola Tesla Company to be published in a Directory of Directors. Not knowing if you wish to give the information, I told the gentleman that you were absent, and he asked me to write you, as the book is to go to press very shortly. Can I give the desired information?

Besides the two inclosed letters the mail of to-day contained again two appeals for aid, one from the Presbyterian Hospital and the other from the Fresh Air Fund Society, to which I have answered as before to other similar letters. Is this right or shall I send them?

Respectfully,

Geo. Scherff.

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G Scherff 1 #0094


New York, July 15th, 1899.
46 & 48 E. Houston Str..

Nikola Tesla, Esq.,
Colorado Springs, Colo.

Dear Mr. Tesla:

Your telegram to express one of the later type oscillators with accessories and two secondary spools was received this afternoon, and accordingly Mr. Uhlman is having one of them – the one that went to Chicago – looked over, and has also sent sketches to Mr. Merckling for the two secondary spools, which the latter promise to have ready on Tuesday.

I shall send the first part of the prospectus and patent list to Mr. Rankine, as soon as the letter mentioned in your telegram arrives.

Mr. Uhlman says he has tested the speed of the first independent break and found it to be 1875 revolutions per minute. It runs very smoothly and ---.

Mr. Coaney sent a messenger here this morning with a stock certificate of the Nikola Tesla Company of 39 shared, standing in the name of Mr. Coaney. He wanted this split up into three parts of ten, fourteen and fifteen shared respectively, for the purpose of transferring it and for the sake of convenience, he explained to me over the telephone, as Mr. Adams designed to deposit ...

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G Scherff 1 #0095


... part of his stock with a trust company. As I was not familiar with filling --- the blanks, Mr Coaney suggested that I forward the stock certificate book to Mr. Rankine, as he would have to sign the certificate anyway. However, upon inquiry he found that Mr. Rankine was not downtown to-day, and so the matter was put off until same other day when Mr. Rankine in his office. The stock was returned to Mr. Coaney and the book remains here, of course.

I inclose a statement of the expenses for this week.

Respectfully,

Geo. Scherff.

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[Michelinho]

G Scherff 1 #0096-0097-0098-0099

G Scherff 1 #0096


New York, July 17th, 1899.
46 & 48 E. Houston Str.


Nikola Tesla, Esq.,
Colorado Springs, Colo.

Dear Mr. Tesla:

Your two letters, inclosing letter to Mr. Rankine bill and checks therefore, also checks for Mr. Unger and for laboratory expenses were received this morning. Cash on hand is now $227.15.

I immediately forwarded the letter to Mr. Rankine, together with the first two chapters of the prospectus and patent list, by Alfred to the office of the Cataract Construction Company, after first ascertaining by telephone that he would be there this morning.

The shipment of the oscillator is delayed by the two secondary spools, which Mr. Merckling promises to have ready to-morrow morning. Everything else is ready.

Mr. Uhlman reports that the work of the shop is on the armature, pump, shaft, winding of magnets, armature spider and ball bearings. He says that the speed of the independent break is now up 200 revolutions per minute and that he will test its breaking efficiency to-morrow. He also requests that you lay out some more work, as he expects that the second independent break will be ...

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G Scherff 1 #0097


... finished very shortly.

I inclosed letter in Servian was received to-day, together with a very large engraved paper, which looks like a diploma.

Respectfully,

Geo. Scherff.

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G Scherff 1 #0098


New York, July 18th, 1899.
46 & 48 E. Houston Str.


Nikola Tesla, Esq.,
Colorado Springs, Colo.

Dear Mr. Tesla:

Your letter of July 14th was received this morning, and Mr. Uhlman says that work on the coherers has been begun according to the instructions, and that they will be finished as quickly as possible. The work in the shop now is on the armature, armature spider, shaft, casting for the fields and coherers.

The D. Van Nostrand Company have forwarded three books on astronomy to select from. They are being shipped together in the box with the oscillator. Mr. Speirs said he had not a single copy of the book by Mascart and Joubert on hand, but he thinks he can obtain it until to-morrow. It will be sent on as soon as it is received.

The mail to-day consisted of two letters from inventors, who wish you to buy their ideas.

Mr. Uhlman and myself have been delighted to hear from yourself of your record-breaking success. We have been anxiously, but vainly, watching the papers for some report of your experiments.

Respectfully,

Geo. Scherff.

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G Scherff 1 #0099


New York, July 19th, 1899.
46 & 48 E. Houston Str.


Nikola Tesla, Esq.,
Colorado Springs, Colo.

Dear Mr. Tesla:

Mr. Uhlman reports that the work in the shop is on the coherers, commutator, armature and shaft. The work on the coherers, he says, is progressing rapidly.

The parts of the second independent break finished up to date are castings, armature spider, brush-holders, bushing for the shaft, magnets, disk, pulley cover, pump arm. Pump and ball bearing.

The heavy wax paper used in winding the secondary coils is all exhausted. Another roam of it has been ordered and is expected in a day or so. Mr. Uhlman says he will have some of it cut to the proper size for the spools which have been sent and forward it as soon as possible.

Respectfully,

Geo. Scherff.

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Hi Ernst,

This complete the Scherff 1 correspondence that was not done by me when I started transcribing that folder, just the hand written letters to be done but I can't make head or tails of his scribbling. I hope someone that can decipher those come forward to transcribe them.

Check what is left to be done and I will try to do them as I can.

How are your other projects coming along?

Take care,

Michel

[Ernst]

Hi Michel,

You're a great help! You'll be famous someday The man who single handedly transcribed a couple of 1000 Tesla letters.
Today we already see a steady increase in interest in Tesla's legacy, but when my project is published it will explode... (this interest, not my project )

At this time I am preparing publication in the form of two video's.
(I like to keep them short)
Video #1 will describe the full process of the Magnifying Transmitter, and with it many other things will become clear about Tesla's work, such as the Death Ray and Interplanetary Communication. I already put a teaser/preview online.
The video will show the whole process, but explain only 90%. Because the last 10% requires a bit more attention. Modern scientists who'd view this video will say that the scheme as presented won't work. But the problem is not in the scheme, it is in their understanding.
That is why video #2 is made. This video will show and explain what is lacking in our understanding and thus prove that this way we can indeed hook our machines up to the "wheelwork of Nature". This video too will make people understand many other things that Tesla said, but are currently either misunderstood or misinterpreted.

There are influential people who'd not be happy with this info being public. And since also the Death Ray will be explained (though not explicitly) they will probably use state-security (or something similar nonsensical) as an excuse to remove the video's. So I will urge everyone to make the video's viral as soon as they are online, copy, redistribute etc.
But I will let you'all know when I am ready, by opening a new thread.

Now, to rebuild Wardenclyffe is beyond any of us, mostly for financial reasons, but there is a possibility that with modern electronics we can produce interesting results on a much smaller scale. I'm no good with power transistors but other people are, so they will have to provide the small scale evidence.

In the unlikely event that my project will not get the attention it deserves I will create lightning the way Tesla did and that can be heard miles away. That will put me on national TV for sure. (and in jail later?) For this purpose my coils are being upgraded to run in CW mode at 60KW.

So, that is my 'other' project's status.


Ernst.

[Michelinho]

Tesla needs to be recognized as FAMOUS, not me.

Hi Michel,

You're a great help! You'll be famous someday The man who single handedly transcribed a couple of 1000 Tesla letters.

LOL Like I need to be famous... I'm trying to keep a low profile here.

Any thing left to transcribe? I might not be as available as before but I'll try to do my best in helping you achieve a prompt conclusion to this workload.

Today we already see a steady increase in interest in Tesla's legacy, but when my project is published it will explode... (this interest, not my project )

I guess then the politic scene needs to be revamped and according to your country's list of possible POTUS, I see only if "The Donald" gets to the finish line for that to be achievable (?). I don't see Hillary moving toward that goal, as she is bought for by the special interests crawling in DC and she is under criminal investigation for possible treasonous activities as SOS and all that happened before and during the time she held that post. (That's my political view and it is not negotiable... LOL)

I wish you SUCCESS in your projects and beyond.

Take care,

Michel

[Ernst]

According to my administration the situation is as follows:

G Scherff (1) - 502 files
missing: 8, 29-35, 42, 46, 47, 50, 51, 70, 76-80, 84, 85, 91, 143, 144, 151, 152, 165, 172, 173, 181, 182, 199, 200, 226, 234, 263, 264, 284-287,289-302, 310, 311, 315, 316

G Scherff (2) - 373 files
missing: 166, 185, 189, 262, 307-312, 316-322, 324, 336, 337, 339, 340, 353, 358

G Westinhouse - 60 files
missing: 1, 21, 24, 50, 52

JP Morgan - 254 files - being worked on by Jeff
missing: 29-33, 41, 91-96, 100-144, 172-end

RU Johnson (1) - 405 files - being worked on by Dom
missing: 3-end

RU Johnson (2) - 288 files
missing: all

S Clemens - 3 files
missing: all

Westinghouse Company - 354 files
missing: 3, 4, 113, 122, 126, 128, 132-133, 150, 151, 153, 157, 169, 192, 233, 239, 255, 287-290, 315, 329, 337

So....
RUJ (2) and Sam C are free....


Ernst.

[Michelinho]

OK, will check them out. The handwriting looks a little easier to decode.

Michel

[dominator9999]

RU Johnson(1) -0003-0004

Aug. 30, 1894


Dear Tesla:

My train leaves at 2:50 from east 34 St. Ferry and I shall be very happy if your failling(??) mood of yesterday would from(????) going through(??) to impel you to take that train. The time given above is that of the ferry. All the better if you come a little earlier and join me in the bridge Hampton(??) train. Remember that Saturday is a half holiday and Monday is a whole holiday
.
Here is a copy of my script(???) which I hope will not displease you. Please destroy it lest it falls into the hands of the man who ??? me on the trouble of the blind men's club

Tout a vous!

R.U. Johnson

[dominator9999]

RU Johnson(1) -0009-0010

Saturday morning
April 13, 1895


Dear Tesla:

Do you know that it has now been more than three months since you have been in this house?

We shall be at home tonight after nine thirty and it would give us great pleasure to see you again.

We appreciate very much your recent kind letters but letters do not satisfy the desire of friends to see each other when they are as near as we are.

Faithfully yours,

R.U. Johnson

[Michelinho]

S. Clemens 1-2-3

S. Clemens 1
44.
HOTEL KRANTZ
Wein/I.Nuer Markt
Nov. 17/1898.

Dear Mr. Tesla-

Have you --- & English patents on that destructive terror which you have been inventing (2) and if so, wont you set a price upon them & commission me to sell them. I know cabinet ministers of both countries, Germany too; litauisk William II.

I shall be in Europe a year yet.

I --- in the hotel the other night when some interested men were discussing means to persuade the nation to join with the Czar & ---, I advised them to seek something more since --- --- by perishable paper, contract --- the great --- --- to contrive something against which fleets & armies would be helpless & --- make --- --- --- impossible. That you were already --- to that & getting ready to introduce into this earth permanent peace & disarmament --- a practical & mandatory way.

I know you are a very busy man, but with you steal time to --- a line.

Sincerely yours,

Mark Twain

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S. Clemens 2


THE PLAYERS,
16 GRAMERCY PARK.
March 4/94.


Dear Mr. Tesla:

If I can possibly manage it I'll be there by 4 pm. But I am dreadfully pushed for time. I --- --- depend on use.

In haste

Sincerely yours,

S. L. Clemens.

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S. Clemens 3


THE PLAYERS,
16 GRAMERCY PARK.
March 4/94.


Dear Mr. Tesla:

I am desperately sorry, but a matter of unavoidable business has intruded itself & bars me from coming down to-morrow afternoon. I am very sorry. Do forgive me.

Sincerely yours,

S. L. Clemens

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[Michelinho]

RU Johnson (2) 0001-0002-0003-0004-0005

RU Johnson (2) 0001

THE CENTURY ASSOCIATION
7 WEST FORTY-THIRD STREET
Dec. 23 1914,


Dear Tesla:

“Merry” has dropped --- of the dictionary but goodwill to men remains. So here's our best wishes to you and regret that we are not in our own house this year to be your host. Consider yourself engaged for next year. Diner at 8 Sharp.
…


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RU Johnson (2) 0002


… If I had time or money I'd put it into the Servian relief movement. ---------------------------------------------------------------------

You are in a beautiful tower - towers seem to have great attraction for you – and you must live up to the fact that you are nearer heaven then the rest of us.

If I hadn't lost the faculty of worry I'd have been --- --- --- this dreadful year.
…


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RU Johnson (2) 0003


… We are at the Schuler 57 West 45th St.

Yours to be sure,

R. U. J. Filipova


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RU Johnson (2) 0004


COPY.
Waldorf-Astoria,
New York, Dec. 24, 1914.

R. U. Johnson, Esq.,
57 West 45 Street,
New York City, New York.

My dear Luka:

Accept with Mrs. Johnson my heartiest good wishes. May the next year see the realization of your fondest hopes.

Do not worry about finances. Remember while you sleep I work and am solving your problems.

The old clippings you have forwarded are a sad reminder of my former folly. I had thirty-six patents on my system of power transmission in which billions are invested now. I won every suit without exception and had it not been for “scrap of paper” I would have received in royalties Rockfellers fortune. But just the same I feel I am safe to invite you to dinner for the New Year after next in my own town house. Need I say that we shall have a fine time in the summer at my country residence?

As ever,

Yours sincerely,


P.S. Look to a formal notice form my bankers that you may draw on me for all you want.


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RU Johnson (2) 0005


COPY.
Waldorf-Astoria,
New York, Dec. 24, 1914.

R. U. Johnson, Esq.,
57 West 45 Street,
New York City, New York.

My dear Luka:

Accept with Mrs. Johnson my heartiest good wishes. May the next year see the realization of your fondest hopes.

Do not worry about finances. Remember while you sleep I work and am solving your problems.

The old clippings …

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[Michelinho]

RU Johnson (2) 0006-0007-0008-0009-0010

RU Johnson (2) 0006


… you have forwarded are a sad reminder of my former folly. I had thirty-six patents on my system of power transmission in which billions are invested now. I won every suit without exception and had it not been for “scrap of paper” I would have received in royalties Rockfellers fortune. But just the same I feel I am safe to invite you to dinner for the New Year after next in my own town house. Need I say that we shall have a fine time in the summer at my country residence?

As ever,

Yours sincerely,


P.S. Look to a formal notice f000orm my bankers that you may draw on me for all you want.

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RU Johnson (2) 0007

Dec. 26 , 1914
THE CENTURY ASSOCIATION
7 WEST FORTY-THIRD STREET

Dear Tesla:

I am very sad over the death of Muir – one of my most faithful and affectionate friends. I have had letters from him as late as this month and feel very near to him.

I hope the New Year will bring you the realization of your hope. I am very busy on work that …

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RU Johnson (2) 0008

… Yields little but which does not leave me unhappy. What I most crave and miss, is the chance to write poetry in serenity. Wordsworth said “poetry is emotion remembered in tranquility” but the problem is how to get the tranquillity.

Yours faithfully --- you may not believe it

R. U. J.

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RU Johnson (2) 0009


COPY.
Waldorf-Astoria,
New York, Dec. 27, 1914.

R. U. Johnson, Esq.,
57 West 45 Street,
New York City, New York.

My dear Luka:

I have also been painfully shocked on learning of Mr. Muir's death. He seemed so vigorous in mind and body when I saw him not long ago.

Please take my words seriously and do not worry and write your splendid poetry in perfect serenity. I will do away with all difficulties which confront you. Your talent cannot be turned into money thanks to the lack of discernment of the people of this glorious country. But mine is one which can be transformed into car-loads of gold. I am doing this now. Get your harp and look out to that notice.

Yours sincerely,

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RU Johnson (2) 0010

Feb. 17 , 1915
CENTURY CLUB
NEW YORK

Dear Tesla:

I am joining the Servian Committee though I have no time for committee meetings and no money but I've offered to read (or contribute the copyright of) my paraphrases …

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[Michelinho]

RU Johnson (2) 0011-0012-0013-0014-0015

RU Johnson (2) 0011


… you see more Griffith's request for a --- of Servian literature. Why dont you dictate an article on Servia and sell it to one of the magazine that it help the cause? Don't let Griffin …

“crowd you out” also appears on RU Johnson (2) 0012

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RU Johnson (2) 0012


… crowd you out of the place you ought to hold in this movement for your race.

Yours to be ---,

R.U. J.

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RU Johnson (2) 0013


Sept 13. 1915

327 LEXINGTON AVENUE

Dear Tesla:

Last night I was dining with Miss Helen Losanitch of Serbia who you know is working hard here for her people. She said she would be ashamed to go back to her country and confess that she had not seen Tesla! She is a charming cultivated young woman with whom you would have no difficulty in …

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RU Johnson (2) 0014


… communicating as she speaks Serbian perfectly.

When she spoke --- of you I offered to call you up and invite you to come to make her acquaintance but you were not in.

My dear Tesla do let me arrange a meeting between you. She is not making any demand of you and I am giving her letter of introduction which are of great use to her. Everywhere she goes she is received with the warmest welcome and I am thanked for sending her.

I am eager to hear that you have won your suit against Marconi. What is the …
“situation of it?” also appears on RU Johnson (2) 0015

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RU Johnson (2) 0015

This week is going to be big with --- for me. Pray for me to the no[god that you worship.

Faithfully yours,

R. U. J

I am going to read some of the Serbian --- with Miss Losanitch when she next speak in N. Y.

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[Michelinho]

RU Johnson (2) 0016-0017-0018-0019-0020

RU Johnson (2) 0016


The Waldorf-Astoria (logo)

New York, November 8 1915

Dear Tesla:

Mr. Lilipov and I are delighted at the announcement that you received the Nobel prize and we congratulate you with all our hearts.

You see you will find it difficult to drive away some of your friends.

“Old dog Tray's ever faithful,
Grief cannot drive him away,
He's faithful and he's kind,
You'll never, never find,
A better friend than old dog Tray.”
...

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RU Johnson (2) 0017


… We are deep in sorrow over the faith of Serbia and wish it were in our power to do something. I have told Miss Losanitch that I will gladly read the paraphrases and give the proceeds to her fund but it seems difficult to arrange. I know from experience that I can read them effectively.

We are back in the old home struggling to keep it. Josie has --- not to --- away if you come to the door, either as a millionaire or as a mendiant.

Faithfully yours,

R. U. J (“Luka Lilipov”)

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RU Johnson (2) 0018


COPY.
Waldorf, Nov. 10, 1915.

My dear Luka:

I must thank you for your congratulations, of course. To a man of your consuming ambition such a distinction means much. In a thousand years there will be many thousand recipients of the Nobel prize. But I have not less than four dozen of my creations identified with my name in the technical literature. These are honors real and permanent which are bestowed, not by a few who are apt to err, but by the whole world which seldom make mistake, and for any of these I would give all the Nobel prizes which will be distributed during the next thousand years.

Josie will never have the chance of turning me away as a beggar, but I shall give her soon an opportunity of slamming your door in the face of a multimillionaire.

As ever yours faithfully

(Signed) N.T.

R. U. Johnson, Esq.,
327 Lexington Avenue,
N.Y.

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RU Johnson (2) 0019

(same as RU Johnson (2) 0018)


COPY.
Waldorf, Nov. 10, 1915.

My dear Luka:

I must thank you for your congratulations, of course. To a man of your consuming ambition such a distinction means much. In a thousand years there will be many thousand recipients of the Nobel prize. But I have not less than four dozen of my creations identified with my name in the technical literature. These are honors real and permanent which are bestowed, not by a few who are apt to err, but by the whole world which seldom make mistake, and for any of these I would give all the Nobel prizes which will be distributed during the next thousand years.

Josie will never have the chance of turning me away as a beggar, but I shall give her soon an opportunity of slamming your door in the face of a multimillionaire.

As ever yours faithfully

(Signed) N.T.

R. U. Johnson, Esq.,
327 Lexington Avenue,
N.Y.

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RU Johnson (2) 0020


COPY.

Waldorf-Astoria,
December 21, 1915.

My dear Luka:

Very sorry indeed that I cannot be with you on Christmas as I have engaged myself long ago. But I am expecting the pleasure of passing an evening with the Johnson's in force next week. Your charming wife is evidently displeased. If she were not Irish I would remonstrate, but under the circumstances I can do no more than wait till her ire is spent.

Hoping that all is well with you and looking to your welcome message I remain with hearty greetings,

Sincerely yours,

` (Signed) Nikola.

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[Michelinho]

RU Johnson (2) 0021-0022-0023-0024-0025

RU Johnson (2) 0021


COPY

J. Acton Lomax
Corn Exchange Bank Building
15 William Street

PERSONAL & CONFIDENTIAL New York, December 28 , 1915

Robert Underwood Johnson, Esq.

The Century Co. Union Square, New York City.

My dear Sir:

When in recent numbers of the Century you published some nice little fairy tails by the “Princess” Lazarovich I held my peace. Most of them, to the best of my somewhat hazy recollection of London in the 70's and 80's, had already seen the light of day in the contemporary issues of “Truth”. “The World” and that paragon of backstairs gossip which occasionally found its way into the drawing room from the servant's hall.- “Modern Society”, and although the principal characters, such as the Prince of Wales, the Duke of So and So or the Marquis of This and That, were the same, the recipients and “riposteurs” or “riposteuses” to the exalted remarks wore different. However, if the American public liked to read that sort of stuff and believe it, (and you were the best judge of that) it certainly was none of my business. But when in January number of the Century “The Centurion” seriously refers to and therefore apparently endorses the preposterous pretensions of the soi-disant “Prince” Lazarovich. I can hold my peace no longer. It is high time that somebody “put you wise”.

Some years ago, when this individual was brought to my office on business, I confess that I was confiding enough to take him at face value. Although I know something of such European courts as Berlin, Vienna and Petrograd, I admit that Nish, Sofia, Bucharest, etc. were rather out of my line of travel and, as I knew that so called Russian princes (Kniaz) were as thick as blackberries, his serf assumed title did not at first excite my suspicion. Both I and my partner had some decidedly unsavoury experiences with him and finally, after several outside warnings, I decided to make some inquiries. As he had proclaimed himself a former officer of high rank in the Austrian army.- I think he claimed to have been on the General Staff.- I wrote to the Austrian Embassy in Washington for the information and received a reply that no such officer was known in the Austrian army, that no such title was known in Austria, that no officer in their army would dare to call himself by a title to which he had no right and that therefore all “this individual's claims were incorrect”. About the same time “this individual” and his “Princess” attempted to push themselves into the limelight by proposing to organize some kind of a Servian Relief Fund. No sooner had they succeeded in obtaining some publicity in the newspapers than both Prof. Pupin, (Servian Consul General and head of the Servian Red Cross) and Mr. Yeftich, (Editor of the Servian Daily and I am told, one of the best known Servians in New York) publicly repudiated them in …

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… the most scathing terms and denounced their pretensions as impudent and ridiculous. Mr. Yeftich and Mr. Pavlovich of the Serb Federation went even further. They distributed a leaflet warning all Servians against contributing a cent to what they were pleased to call “bogus princes” and “shameless fakers”, and declared that the real name of this individual was Eugen Houdetcheck-Chernuky, that he was not a serb but a Bohemian, that his father was a petty Austrian official and that, because of his mother's maiden name happened to be Lazarovich, (as Common a name there as is Jacobson, Abramson, or Isaacson here) he took upon himself to build up this fantastic claim to a princely title. In a personal letter to myself, in reply to an inquiry, Mr. Yeftich added other more or less discreditable details. This letter, together with the letter from the from the Austrian Embassy is at your disposal, if you wish to see them.

I am perfectly aware that. In reading this, you may fell that I am prejudiced and I should be the last to deny it. However, the back numbers of the newspapers are doubtless at your disposal and you can refer to almost any of them, especially The World, for the week from Nov. 28 of 1912. Moreover, it will only take you five minutes to call up by telephone Prof. Pupin of Columbia University, or Mr. Yeftich of the Servian Daily. The standing of both these men is, I imagine, beyond dispute. If they corroborate the facts I have sketched above, it seems to me that you owe it to your readers to publish some kind of a dementi. If the Century were a tenth rate magazine, it would not matter, but the endorsement or apparent endorsement of a publication of such high standing can easily be used to further other less legitimate schemes.

Apologizing for the inflicting upon you such a lengthy treaties,

Yours very truly,

(signed) J. Acton Lomax

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RU Johnson (2) 0023


January 9, 1916.

327 LEXINGTON AVENUE.

Dear Mr. Tesla:

I am going to have a birthday on Wednesday and I'm asking on my own account, to come in and take a cup of tea with me and sit by my drawing room fire, and say a word of cheer to an aging (good grace) poet. You will not have many more chances. Do come in after four o'clock on your way back to your dream lodging in the Waldorf. A Happy New Year to you!

Faithfully still,

R. N. Johnson

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Room 411,
70 Fifth Ave
New York

January 13, 1916

Dear Tesla:

I have permission to show this to “a friend” confidentially.

Kindly reinclose it to me,

Yours to be sure,

R. N. Johnson

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RU Johnson (2) 0025

Waldorf, January 15, 1916

My dear Luka:

I have been suffering for the past three weeks from a dreadful attack of grippe and am so exhausted that I have no energy to write a letter manu propria. Believe me that I keenly regretted not to have been present at your home on Wednesday last to tell you all the also nice things about yourself that I can think of.

As to that letter, I feel sure that I am not mistaken in advising you to give wide berth to its author and those whom he expresses his own good opinion. All that he states has already been put in print and extensively circulated and a man of your keen wits will have no difficulty in guessing by whom.

My information as to these friends of ours is meager. I only know that they are suffering from poverty and persecution.They are both ingenious, skilled, well versed, insanely ambitious, boundlessly conceited; in short- it is a combination of the rarest gulities with faults of which most of us are not free. On the whole, I consider them worthy and am not likely to change my opinion.

You will be pleased to know that I am successfully developing my undertakings and the time for that notice from my bankers is near at hand.

With kind regards to all, I am,

Yours sincerely,

Enclosure

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