December 6, 1853. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell: "I have had some tooth ache this P.M. in an old snag that was left some ten years ago, when I went to Ithaca at midnight with Dennis McCoy the Irishman to hold my head. You may recollect the history of that terable night. Dr Miles (I think) pulled on it 3 times with his entire strength, and as offin the irons broke loos. The fourth pull broke the tooth taking the tooth with one prong out, and a piece of the jaw with it." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, western lines; American Telegraph Confederation. Personal names: Bristol, John S.; Cornell, Mary Ann Geography: