July 17, 1850. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell: "If the experience of the past is any criterion for the future, the grim specter poverty will always stand staring me in the face. At all events I have to meet his ugly visage daily?" Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, disputes concerning western lines. Personal names: Speed, J.J.; Robinson, Charles B.; Faxton, Theodore; Beebe, Jeremiah S.; Ely, Charles Geography: Detroit; New York City