These documents consist of correspondence and other items by Madeleine Edison (1888-1979), the eldest child and only daughter of Thomas and Mina Edison. Included is a letter from 1898 celebrating the eighth birthday of her brother Charles, as well as an essay from January 1901 entitled "Christmas Day." There is also an undated letter to her maternal grandmother, Mary Valinda Miller, written during the summer of 1909 while Madeleine was vacationing at Edgartown, Massachusetts. Courtesy of the Edison-Ford Winter Estates.