April 24, 1853. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell: "The history of Telegraph has therefor been a history of wars, and there are many of those contests unsettled?" Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, consolidation of lines, transfer of lines, patents and contracts, western lines; Ithaca land Personal names: Wood, Phebe; Smith, F.O.J.; Kendall, Amos; O'Reilly, Henry; Delano, W.J.; Wood, M.B.; Morse, Samuel F.B. Geography: Fall Creek (Ithaca)