October 18, 1855. Mary Ann Cornell to Ezra Cornell: "I think you will recollect of giving me fifteen dollars before you left home. I have used it very prudently?and it is all gone but fifty cents." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, western lines, consolidation of lines; New York, Albany & Buffalo Electro Magnetic Telegraph Company; Erie & Michigan Telegraph Company. Personal names: Cornell, Alonzo B.; Cornell, Mary Ann Geography: Rochester, N.Y.; Buffalo; Michigan