January 15, 1865. Ezra Cornell to F.M. Finch: "You will recv. an invitation to attend a meeting of eminent men, friends of education, at Albany?to inaugurate the movement for our Agricultural College, and a University at Ithaca? "I have modified my proposition so that it proposes to donate $500,000, for the erection of a college at Ithaca on condition that the state will endow the institution with the entire land grant fund? "Assuming that Beers is satisfied that the Peoples College is a failure through Cooks refusal to carry out his promised aid, and that he will now go in for our project as I am told many of the Peoples College Trustees will, we want him to come also." Topics: Cornell Public Library; Land Grant Fund; telegraph business correspondence; Forest Park farm Personal names: Brown, Amos; Lummis, W.; Barnard, R.; Finch, F.M.; Cornell, E.B.; Millspaugh, J.H.; Palmer, O.H.; Taylor, J.J.; Wood, O.S.; Cornell, Franklin C.; Lummis, W. Geography: