May 13, 1855. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell: "Homeopathy seems to do verry well when there is nothing the matter. It is so nice to take but when I am sick it seems to require the old ugly doses of the 'old butchers' to cure me." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, transfer of lines, western lines; Southern Michigan Telegraph Company Personal names: Wood, O.S.; Wood, M.B.; Faxton, Theodore; Smith, F.O.J. Geography: Michigan