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The Harry F. Miller File contains contracts, financial material, correspondence, interoffice communications, and other legal and business records that were maintained by Miller in his capacities as Edison's personal business secretary (1908-1917) and as an official in several Edison companies. The dated items cover the years 1911-1923. There are also a few undated ledger sheets that are probably from the early 1900s. Most of the documents for the period 1917-1923 were handled by Miller's assistant, Richard W. Kellow, who succeeded him as secretary of Thomas A. Edison, Personal.

The documents are arranged in three groups that parallel the arrangement of the archival record group at the Edison National Historical Park. An item level finding aid for the record group is available. Related material can be found in the Richard W. Kellow File (Legal Series) and in the Edison General File Series.

Group 1

Benzol Plant Correspondence (1915)

Group 2

Ledger Sheets (ca. 1907)

Allis-Chalmers Case Settlement (1911)

Financial Material (1913-1914)

Chemical Contracts and Correspondence (1915-1919)

Group 3

Legal and Personal Business Records (1911-1923)

Records Not Selected

Group 1

Meadowcroft Memoranda (1919-1924). Seven folders of routine interoffice communications to Miller from Edison's personal assistant, William H. Meadowcroft. The documents, which were originally stored together in a black binder, deal with mundane financial matters such as U.S. money orders, stamps, and currency.

Letterbook (1907-1916). Selections from this letterbook appear in Thomas A. Edison Papers: A Selective Microfilm Edition, Part IV (1899-1910).

Group 2

In addition to the unselected items characterized in the editorial descriptions for the four selected folders, unselected documents include production and shipment records for paraphenylenediamine, 1916; building permits and applications for new structures at Silver Lake, New Jersey, 1916; documents relating to the formation of Canadian Edison Phonographs, Ltd., 1920; routine monthly statements for a rarely-used Edison account at the First National Bank in West Orange, 1920-1925; receipts to Mina Miller Edison for mortgage payments on property owned by her on 10 Fifth Avenue in New York City, 1920-1925; and fur storage receipts for Mina Edison, 1928-1929, issued to her brother John V. Miller.