June 4, 1861. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell: "The death of Douglass which we have just heard will be regretted by the Nation at this critical juncture. If he had poped off before hatching his Squatter Soverign herricy his death would have been a National blessing." Topics: coal oil business; Forest Park farm; telegraph business correspondence; Civil War: Battle of Bull Run, prisoners (John W. and Ezra E. Cornell). Personal names: Chace, Miller; Wood, O.S.; Speed, J.J.; Wood, M.B.; Cornell, J.W.; Chace, Rebecca; Cornell, Ezra E.; Stone, Samuel Geography: Chicago