July 16, 1851. J. C. Woodruff to Ezra Cornell: "The stockholders of your company are very much dissatisfied with your management from beginning to end, and are clamorous for a change in its management. Ithaca charges all its misfortunes upon you, and I do not see but you must stand Godfather to them all, fix it as you will. We have a line of telegraph that ought to pay well - substantially built - well arranged, and yet running into debt every day, and becoming a reproach and bye word among telegraphers and laymen?. In short, there is one general complaint - one outcry, and it is evident to me, that though you understand telegraphing well, you either have too much business in hand, or are short of capacity and concentration to manage such a line?. "We stockholders lack confidence in your ability to do anything with it, and the people lack confidence in the line?." July 8, 1851. S.W. Hotchkiss to Ezra Cornell from Madison reporting of the reorganization of the Milwaukee, Galena & Chicago Telegraph Company under the name of the Northwestern Telegraph Company. July 13, 19, 1851. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell concerning financial arrangements and operations of western lines. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, materials and supplies, office operations. Personal names: Speed, J.J.; Tillotson, L.G.; Shippen, W.; Ingersoll, C.M.; Hotchkiss, S.W. Geography: Cleveland