December 27, 1852. Ezra Cornell's plan to bury telegraph cable. 1852. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell: "I am homesick, and can't write, I want to go home and stay there. I am sick of telegraphing, sick of business - sick of everything except my wife and I wish I could live with her, but I can't, I have got into the scrape and must stick to it manfully until I can work out." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, materials and supplies, consolidation of lines, western lines. Personal names: Wood, Phebe; Wade, J.H.; Cornell, Alonzo B.; Beebe, Jeremiah S.; Cornell, Mary Ann Geography: New York City