May 28, 1858. Phebe Wood to Ezra Cornell: "I recieved your letter and read it more in sorrow than anger. Now how a man who never wrote a letter in his life without misspelling some of his words can have the brass to ridicule others is more than I can see?if I applied to my wife for information or kept some one running to the dictionary as often as you do no doubt I would spell better?" Also: discussion of the Rulloff murder case. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: stock sales and transfers, finances, legal conflicts. Personal names: Wood, M.B.; Wood, O.S.; Wood, Phebe; Curtiss, George; Elwood, Isaac R.; Chester, E.W. Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.