July 24th, 1899 letter from George Scherff to Nikola Tesla

New York, July 24th, 1899
46 & 48 E. Houston Str.

Nikola Tesla, Esq.,
Colorado Springs, Colo.

Dear Mr. Tesla:

Your note and letter of Muncherjee & Co. were received this morning. I have written them in accordance with your instructions. 

The work in the shop is on the coherers, filings, armature and finishing of pulley. Mr. Uhlman says the coherers are nearing completion; also that during the past week he has been unable to do much on the design of the break with constant overflow feature, having been actively occupied with the work in the shop.

The oscillator which was first shipped has been returned from Chicago in good order. In the box containing it were also Vol. 11 of Mascart and Joubert's work on Electricity and Magnetism, which was just received from the D. Van Nostrand Company. They have not yet been able to obtain Vol. 1, as Mr. Speirs explains in the inclosed note. The other two books, I thought might be conveniently shipped together with the wax-paper and another secondary spool for the oscillator. I was misinformed the other day when I wrote that two spools had been forwarded, it was one coil already wound , belonging to the oscillator, and one empty spool, Mr. Merckling not having the other one finished. We hope to send all this to-morrow, as the wax-paper is promised to be shipped to-day.

I inclose also a bill just received from the van Nostrand Company.

Respectfully,
Geo. Scherff