

Selections from the letterbook of the inventor and manufacturer Eli Emery Hendrick. The digital collection includes letters related to Hendrick's interest in automobiles. The letters reveal the enthusiasms and frustrations of an early motorist, who, although wealthy and mechanically gifted, was not a millionaire sportsman or race driver.
Read more about the letterbook and Hendrick here
Browse letters chronologically
View trade catalogs for a few of the companies Hendrick corresponds with in his letters
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Image: Hendrick's letter to The American Electric Vehicle Company, 1899.
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