[ Autograph ] Thomas A. Edison 1847-1931 American inventor of the electric light, phonograph, typewriter, and microphone, to name a few Considered perhaps the greatest inventor of the century. Fine content A.D.S. 1p. 4to. on Thomas A. Edison Laboratory letterhead, Orange, N.J., Sep. 17, 1896 In full: "I hereby agree to sell to Stephen F Moriarty two thousand five hundred shares of stock of the Edison United Phonograph Company of New York for the sum of thirty thousand dollars cash, if the same shall be paid to me on or before the sixteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and ninety six, otherwise this option shall be void. Thomas A. Edison" Folds and a few minor spots, spindle hole at top, otherwise very good condition.