Scope and Contents September 20, 1848. Patent Office to Ezra Cornell: "Your application for letters patent for an alleged improvement in insulating telegraphic wires has been examined and rejected for want of novelty." September 26, 1848. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell: "The arguement in the O'Reilly injunction suit is postponed until the 3rd Monday in Oct. to give time to learn the grounds of the Kentucky decision. I have just had a talk with Gov. Seward on the subject and he says the whole matter looks...

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October 8, 1848. Alonzo B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell from Cleveland: "Business is rather dull just now owing to the depression of the produce market?" Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, Canadian lines, finances, New-York & Erie line, Erie & Michigan line. Personal names: Wood, O.S.; Cutter, Isaac H.; Faxton, Theodore; Bristol, John S.; Whitney, H.H.; Cornell, E.B.; Cornell, Alonzo B.; Norton, J.W. Geography: Montreal; Quebec; Cleveland

Scope and Contents October 11, 1848. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell: "In politicks the Free soilers brag the most but I have the utmost confidence that Old Zach will carry the county of Tompkins & State of N.Y. and hope he will sweep the stakes in Ohio." October 12, 1848. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell from Detroit: "?I wanted their thousand dollars to silence some of the men who are bawling about their pay for poles & board bills; but I can fight them off as I have done. I hardly think they will cut...

Scope and Contents October 24, 1848. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell: "Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, auxiliary lines, finances, Erie & Michigan line, stock subscriptions, New-York & Erie line, construction of lines, Canadian lines, O'Reilly conflict. Personal names: Speed, J.J.; Cutter, Isaac H.; Tillotson, D.T.; Cornell, E.B.; Bristol, John S.; Wood, O.S. ...

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October 29, 1848. Alonzo B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell: "I think during election we shall pretty nearly if not quite have our hands full to attend to election news and our regular business also?" Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: stock subscriptions, materials and supplies, Erie & Michigan line, Connecticut & Vermont line, finances. Personal names: Speed, J.J.; Cornell, Alonzo B.; Cornell, John H.; Smith, F.O.J. Geography: Buffalo; Cleveland

Scope and Contents November 5, 1848. E.B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell: "I think it a pretty hard case that after a person earns money it is such hard work to get it. I don't want to complain but I feel as though I ought to have my pay just as promptly as any of the hands." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, Connecticut & Vermont line, construction of lines, New-York & Erie line. Personal names: Allen, Oliver E.; Cornell, E.B.; Bristol, John S. Geography: Ithaca,...

Scope and Contents November 9, 1848. Letter from John H. Cornell to Ezra Cornell proposing that he carry on the pottery business in Ithaca. November 10, 1848. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell from Cleveland: "Allow me to congratulate you on two important events, first the election of old Zack, and second, but not less important, the fact that we have this day worked through for the first time from Detroit to Buffalo as well as we ever worked from here to Buffalo - the Erie & Michigan line is now complete with...

Scope and Contents November 16, 1848. F.O.J. Smith to Ezra Cornell concerning insulators, telegraph conflicts, Henry O'Reilly, and Theodore Faxton. November 23, 1848. J.J. Speed in Detroit to Ezra Cornell: "The wolverines have been keeping Thanksgiving today and have consequently done but about half the usual amt. of business. "I see that Judge Monroe of Kentucky has ordered the Marshall to cut down O'Reilly's poles - is not that a new remedy in law? I wish we had a Judge Monroe here." Topics: Telegraph...