June 26, 1857. Ezra Cornell to E.W. Chester describing the damage caused by a flood in Ithaca. July 1, 1857. Alonzo B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell from New York: "There is another grand gathering of Telegraphy in town?I suppose it is an attempt on the part of the WU Co. or some one else to form a 'grand confederation'?" "How do you like the name of 'Forest Park' --How does mother like it?" Topics: Ithaca farm; Forest Park farm; cattle; telegraph business correspondence: stock dividends, finances, stock transfers, office operations, telegraph convention, consolidation of lines, trials. Personal names: Curtiss, George; Wood, M.B.; Cornell, E.S.; Smith, F.O.J.; Cornell, Alonzo B.; Wood, Phebe Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.