August 8, 1855. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell from Detroit: "I came to De this morning to attend meeting leaving mother at Al. Our meeting has resulted in an agreement with House folks to consolidate, they taking $350,000 and we $150,000, we putting in the E&M line, and they putting in the House line 920, the Lake Erie line 600, the House & Morse Patent, and all other interest they have in the west?" Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, western lines, consolidation of lines; New York, Albany & Buffalo Electro Magnetic Telegraph Company Personal names: Wood, M.B.; Curtiss, George; Makepeace, H.F.; Butts, Isaac. Geography: