October 3, 1864. "Ella" in New Hampshire to Ezra Cornell: "?I am gifted with what my teachers say, an uncommonly beautiful voice for singing, and being passionately fond of music, I have tried hard to get the means to purchase me an instrument, a Melodeon, is what I have always wished for. My parents have not the means to help me, and having no one else in this wide world to ask assistance of, it gave me encouragement to ask you, an entire stranger, when I read of your generosity. O! kind Sir, if you will enclose me one hundred dollars?" October 7, 1864. Henry A. Ward to Ezra Cornell describing various fossils he is interested in selling. Topics: cattle; New York State Agricultural College; real estate (Brooklyn); Cornell Public Library; Smith versus Cornell. Personal names: Bush, Isaac L.; Joy, Arad; Lee, W.; Finch, F.M.; Nichols & Brown; Allen, A.B.; Cornell, J.W.; Shaw, O.F.; Chester, E.W.; Ward, Henry A. Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.