February 20, 1847. Ezra Cornell to D.T. Tillotson: "The exisiting lines are doing a first rate business?the Ithaca & Elmira & Auburn line is doing much more business than was expected would be furnished by those places, and will be a paying line." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: notices of new lines in operation (Philadelphia & Pittsburgh, first of Atlantic, Lake and Mississippi), management of lines, attempts to sell stock in Chicago, patent rights, establishment of new lines (Milwaukee and Detroit). Personal names: O'Reilly, Henry; Tillotson, D.T.; Brown, F.A.; Smith, F.O.J.; Speed, J.J. Geography: