Rare autograph endorsement on a preprinted letter from Thomas Edison to his close associate George F. Morrison, one page, 7 x 9, From the Laboratory of Thomas A. Edison letterhead, August 18, 1913. The letter reads, in full: "My wife left for vacation on 12th, she said I suppose when I am gone it will be the same story. 'When the cat is away the mice will…work.' She made me promise to join her on the 25th, so I will be unable to be with you. Regards to all the boys." In very good to fine condition, with intersecting folds, and light creasing and soiling.
Unable to join Morrison for a meeting at the General Electric Company, Edison had 250 reproductions of this letter made by photographic process, making sure to have his signature omitted. When the letters were printed and placed on his desk, Edison hand-signed the entire stack. Despite her frustrations with his 'Insomnia Squad,' the self-proclaimed name of Edison‘s laboratory staffers, Mina Miller would on occasion joke about her husband's stubborn work habits by declaring that 'when the cat is away the mice will work.'
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