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**Ernst** · 11-07-2015, 09:27 AM

**Ernst** · 11-07-2015, 09:28 AM

# 0054

The Waldorf-Astoria, New York,
Dec. 11Th, 1903.

Dear Mr. Morgan:-
Will you enable me to complete this work and show you,
that you have not made a mistake in giving me a checkbook to draw
on your honored house? It is my honest believe that I am a century
ahead in the fields in which I am working, and that is just the
trouble which confronts every pioneer. You see how your own ad-
vanced ideas are hampered.
My enemies have been so successful in representing me as
a poet and visionary, that it is absolutely imperative for me to
put out something commercial without delay. If you will only help
me to do this, you will preserve a property of immense value.
As regards the wireless project, I beg to call again to
your attention that my patents control absolutely all essential
features and that my work is in such shape, that whenever you
tell me to go ahead I shall girdle the globe within three months,
as surely as my name is Tesla. I have promised the St. Louis Expo-
sition people to open the door of the Exposition with power trans-
mitted from here. It is a great opportunity, Mr. Morgan. I can
easily do it, but if you do not aid me soon it will be too late.
Please think for a moment what this means for me. What I have told
you long ago has happened. My competitors have collapsed, since
wholesale appropriations as they have attempted do not go. Now
is the time to aid me, you know this better than anybody else.
Yours most faithfully,
N. Tesla.

**Ernst** · 11-07-2015, 09:29 AM

# 0056

Copy.

Dear Mr. Morgan:-
When this work is completed you will have something of
incalculable value. As it now stands, I could be in three months
in a position to establish communication with the chief cities of
the world. This in itself would insure the realisation of the fi-
nancial plan as outlined in Mr. Steele's letter to me of Oct. 21,
1902. In two months more I would be able to demonstrate that power
can be transmitted by my wireless system, regardless of distance,
without appreciable loss. Think only, Mr. Morgan, what this means in
you hands. You can not permit that such a marvelous opportunity
is lost, after what you have already done.
Would you be willing to advance the money if the Nikola
Tesla Company were to authorize a bond issue for the amount. You
could attach to this any condition you consider fair. My work is
thorough, Mr. Morgan, it may seem long to complete, but I assure
you that the ultimate results will be very gratifying to you.

(no date)

**Ernst** · 11-07-2015, 09:29 AM

# 0059

Jan 1st04

My dear Sir,
In reply to your note
I regret to say that I
should not be willing
to advance any further
amounts of money
as I have already told
you. Of course I
wish you every success
in your undertaking.
Yours very truly
J.P. Morgan

N. Tesla, Esq,
Waldorf-Astoria

**Ernst** · 11-07-2015, 09:31 AM

# 0060

The Waldorf-Astoria, New York,
Jan. 14th, 1904.

Dear Mr. Morgan:-
That was a nice letter to receive on my New Year! Had
you at least waited till to-day, bad news travel fast enough. You
wish me success! It is in your hands, how can you wish it?
We start on a proposition, everything duly calculated it
is financially frail. You engage in impossible operations, you
make me pay double, yes, make me wait ten months for machinery. On
the top of that you produce a panic. When after putting in all I
could scrape together I come to show you that I have done the best
that could be done you fire me out like an office boy and roar so
that you are heard six blocks away not a cent. It is spread all
over town, I am discredited, the laughing stock of my enemies.
It is just fourteen months that the constructive work on
my plant was stopped. If I would have been helped at that time
three months more with a good force of men would have completed it
and now it would be paying ten thousand dollars a day. More than
this, I would have secured contracts from governments for a number
of similar plants. I am the discoverer of the principles and the
inventor of all the essential devices and no one would have had the
slightest chance in a competition with me. You have favored the
schemers who have no knowledge or skill, but merely the cursing
sense of fraud to fool the world and to hurt my work more by
their incompetent attempts and far more than they ever could by
success.
Now when I have practically removed all obstacles skill-
fully put in my way and need only little more to save a great
property, which would pay you ten million dollars as surely as one
cent, you refuse me help in a trouble brought on by your own doings!
Twenty-five thousand dollars would enable me:
1) to start the manufacture of oscillators, which would
make my undertaking with you self-supporting and insure the ulti-
mate success of my plans;
2) to put my light on the market;
3) to form a lighting company and realize the cash still necessary to complete my plant;
4) the completion of this plant will put me in the posi-
tion of carrying through the plan at Niagara;
5) my office will naturally facilitate all this and yield
a permanent income.
This would be to reach success in a slow and painful way.
If I had now what I need to complete the plant, that would be
different!
I am as anxious to success on your account as mine.
What a dreadful thing it would be to have the
papers come with your name
in red letters It would be telegraphed all
over the globe. You may not care for it, Mr. Morgan, men are
like flies to you. But I would have to work five years to repair
the damage, if reparable at all. I have told you all. Please do
not write to refuse.
I am pained enough as it is.

Yours sorrowfully,
N. Tesla.

**Ernst** · 11-07-2015, 09:33 AM

# 0062

The Waldorf-Astoria, New York,
Jan. 22nd, 1904.

Dear Mr. Morgan:-
Are you going to leave me in a hole?!!
I have made a thousand powerful enemies on your account,
because I have told them that xxxxxxxxxxx I value one of your shoe-
strings more than all of them.
Do not grow old and as weak men do. You are
good for another twenty years, if you hold on to life, to your
people and young ideas.
Could I not pledge you in my plant a while
for twenty-five thousand dollars I need to carry out the plan out-
lined in my last letter? If it is not worth that much, I am not an
engineer of world repute, but a chump.
The better way, however, would be to enable me to com-
plete the plant at once. This would mean for you many millions of
dollars, and, what is more important still, a power which you could
use effectively. I hope that you never for a moment confound my
art with the incompetent efforts of my imitators. I could do bet-
ter than any of them, if ninety-nine parts of me were paralyzed.
In a hundred years from now this country would give much for the
first honors of transmitting power without wires. It must be done
by my methods and apparatus and I should be aided to do it first
myself.

Yours most faithfully,
N. Tesla.

**Ernst** · 11-07-2015, 09:33 AM

# 0063

Copy. The Waldorf-Astoria, New York,
April 1rst, 1904.

Dear Mr. Morgan:-
I have solved the greatest industrial problem which has
confronted humanity since ages. My success is absolutely certain.
I can deliver power in any desired amounts to any distance without
wire, in a practical and most economical manner. This will be of
incalculable consequence on the cost of necessities and commodities.
The prices of oil and coal in particular will be greatly affected,
merely by the moral effect of the first public demonstrations.
I am tired of speaking to pusillanimous people who be-
come scared, when I ask them to invest five thousand dollars, and
get the diarrhoea when I call for ten. Will you aid me to complete
this great work? I have managed to advance it considerably. A
little more and I shall have practical results which will give you
the basis for a business of a magnitude such as the world has
never seen before.

Yours most faithfully,
N. Tesla.

**Ernst** · 11-07-2015, 09:34 AM

# 0064

The Waldorf-Astoria, New York,
April 6th, 1904.

Dear Mr. Morgan:-
Please accept my best wishes for a happy journey.
The books I forward are great, but a thousand libraries
of such books will not be valued in a few years from now the ar-
ticle I enclose.
Yours most faithfully,
N. Tesla.

J.P. Morgan, Esq.

Copy.

**Ernst** · 11-07-2015, 09:38 AM

# 0065

New York, April 24, 1904.

Dear Mr. Morgan:-
Have you ever read the book of Job? If you will put
my mind in place of his body you will find the sufferings accurately
described. I have put all the money I could scrape together in
this plant. With fifty thousand dollars more it is completed, and
I have an inmortal crown and an immense fortune.
Yours most faithfully,
N. Tesla.

Copy.

**Ernst** · 11-07-2015, 09:39 AM

# 0066

T E S L A L A B O R A T O R Y ,
Wardenclyffe, Long Island, N.Y.

July 22nd, 1904.

J. P. Morgan, Esq.,
New York City.
Dear Mr. Morgan:-
I hope the unfortunate misunderstanding, the cause of
which I have been vainly trying to discover, will be removed and
that you will recognize that my work is of the kind that passes
into history and worthy of your support. My plant here, when com-
pleted, will enable you to talk from your office to any part of
the world as clearly and distinctly as across your table, and it
will make possible the transmission of telegraphic messages to all
points of the globe with a speed and precision surpassing by far
those practicable through wires, and its capacity of transmission
will be greater than that of the entire cable system of the world
combined. What is still needed can now be very closely estimated.
Three months would suffice to complete the work, which has now been
cruelly delayed for eighteen months. If you will aid me to the end,
my country will be grateful to you.
Yours most faithfully,

**Ernst** · 11-07-2015, 09:40 AM

# 0067 (difficult to read...)

New York, Sept. 9, 1904.

Dear Mr. Morgan:-
... you interested you..... it e that I
... Despite of the unfor-
tunate delay, I shall fulfil my promise to the letter, if you will
aid me to complete the work. Kindly ..... or that your ..... has
returns ly of the ...ture
from my original proposition. This plant will transmit
telegraphs and telephonic messages to any part of the world and
its earning power will be enormous, certainly not less than ten
thousand dollars a day, as I have already stated before, and be-
sides, it will insure the universal adoption of my system. I am
also assured of contracts for several .... plants in England and
Russia. This is a work with which you will not be displeased to be
associated.

Yours most faithfully,
N. Tesla.

We know now that the a.......ments of transatlantic
messages were not founded on fact, but on this point I ....
to say more.

Copy.

**Ernst** · 11-07-2015, 09:41 AM

**Ernst** · 11-07-2015, 09:43 AM

# 0072

23 WALL STREET

New York, Oct.15th,1904.

Mr. Nicola Tesla,
Waldorf-Astoria,
New York City.

Dear Sir:-

Referring to your letter of

13th October, Mr. J. P. Morgan wishes

me to inform you that it will be impos-

sible for him to do anything more in

the matter.

Yours truly,

Private Secretary.

**Ernst** · 11-07-2015, 09:44 AM

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