January 10, 1862. O.H. Perry Cornell to Ezra Cornell and Mary Ann Cornell: "I write to ask forgiveness for one or two rather quick speeches in my last letter and to ask you to write to me at least if nothing more for I have done nothing as yet that I deserve to be thus treated by you, to be sure I married very young but Dear Parents Louise is more than twice worthy of me she is good and she is pure and all you can say is she is poor." January 13, 1862. [Barnard] to Ezra Cornell: "Father?wished me to write down what he knew in regard to the impresment of American Seamen he says in 1804 he sailed with Timothy Barnard when on the South side of Long Island (in sight of it) the Brittish Frigate Combarine boarded them and took their mate whose name was Cunningham?" Topics: New York State Legislature: letters from constituents; Civil War; Forest Park farm; New York State Agricultural Rooms; cattle; Cayuga Inlet; coal oil business; New York State Agricultural Society Personal names: Cornell, Alonzo B.; Cornell, O.H. Perry; Barnard, D.; Cornell, D.B.; Cornell, Franklin C.; Wood, M.B.; Cornell, Ezra E. Geography: Albany, N.Y.; Ithaca, N.Y.