March 19, 1854. Mary Ann Cornell to Ezra Cornell: "?I most sincerely hope that you will finally succeed in geting together enough of this worlds goods so that you can finally make up yuir mind to settle down on some nice spot and enjoy the comforts of 'home sweet home' with your family. Oh, how happy I should be if it could be so, my dear little do you know the many lonely hours I have passed in your twelve years of absence from home, the cares and anxieties of home all resting on me and the still more anxious care for one I loved dearer than life itself?" March 24, 1854. Amos Kendall to Ezra Cornell: "I regret to learn that you and Mr. Wade do not get along amiably. These quarrels kill the telegraph; and no sooner is one quieted than another springs up." March 26, 1854. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell: "I rejoice that the Great State of N.Y. has granted her sons at last the justice, though tardy, of a prohibitory liquor law; it will save the rising generation if it does not rescue those who are already on the?plain of inebriacy." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, transfer of lines, western lines; legal suits. Personal names: Cornell, E.B.; Cornell, Alonzo B.; Cornell, Mary Ann; Kendall, Amos; Speed, J.J. Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.; Indiana