November 5, 1853. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell: "I think it probable that O'R has got [?] & may give us some trouble, in consequence of not carrying out his darling project of a grand consolidated Company, making him Pres't with a salary of five thousand dollars." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, western lines, consolidation of lines, transfer of lines; Union Telegraph, Speed and O'Reilly Lines. Personal names: Speed, J.J.; Cornell, Alonzo B.; Cornell, Mary Ann; Kendall, Amos Geography: