Box 10
Container
Contains 16 Results:
Correspondence, 1849-06-23 - 1849-07-02
File — Box: 10, Folder: 1
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June 30, 1849. Samuel F.B. Morse to Ezra Cornell:
"If you have suffered from the outrageous rascalities of the O'Reilly pirates in any degree, I have suffered tenfold more, but there will soon be an end of their machinations if there is any force in law or justice."
Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, stock subscriptions, Cleveland & Cincinnati line, New-York & Erie line, St. Louis line, O'Reilly conflict, finances; Ithaca & Auburn Telegraph...
Dates:
1849-06-23 - 1849-07-02
Correspondence, 1849-07-04 - 1849-07-12
File — Box: 10, Folder: 2
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July 4, 1849. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell:
"?Ithaca has a plank road from Hotel to Inlet, one mile, great for Tompkins Company ? a dozen has been planed ? but have all evaporated in a few set speaches at public meetings ? but our Ithaca plank road makes a fine track for the 4th of Julyers to try their nags on."
Also Ezra Cornell's experiments with line connections.
Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: Connecticut & Vermont line, proposed lines, stock subscriptions,...
Dates:
1849-07-04 - 1849-07-12
Correspondence, 1849-07-13 - 1849-07-26
File — Box: 10, Folder: 3
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July 13, 1849. J.J. Speed in Detroit to Ezra Cornell:
"You have warned me in the past to avoid experiments: but I am making one more. I have got a Mrs. Sheldon to take the office at Jackson and am going to get your sister Mrs. Wood to take the Albion office: both are abundantly qualified to do the business better than any boy, or man, that we can afford to pay in those places. If the ex works as well as I have every confidence to believe it will, I will put a woman in the offices at Ann...
Dates:
1849-07-13 - 1849-07-26
Correspondence, 1849-07-27 - 1849-08-09
File — Box: 10, Folder: 4
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July 29, 1849. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell concerning travel between New York and Ithaca, telegraph line operations, Ithaca & Owego railroad, Sodus Canal, and purchase of Fall Creek property:
"I think after this year I shall give up the Telegraph business to you and Col. Speed and I will turn my attention to the improvement of the property."
August 6, 1849. J.J. Speed in Detroit describing the effect of the cholera epidemic in the west (mid-west), progress on the Pittsburgh, St....
Dates:
1849-07-27 - 1849-08-09
Correspondence, 1849-08-11 - 1849-08-23
File — Box: 10, Folder: 5
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August 21, 1849. J. H. Wade in Milan to Ezra Cornell reporting on the progress of the Cleveland & Cincinnati line, and the effect of cholera in the region.
August 21, 1849. S.W. Hotchkiss in Galena to Ezra Cornell reporting on progress of new lines in Illinois and Wisconsin and the O'Reilly conflict.
Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: Ithaca & Elmira line, New-York & Erie line, Connecticut & Vermont line, stock subscriptions, materials and supplies, finances.
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Dates:
1849-08-11 - 1849-08-23
Correspondence, 1849-08-25 - 1849-09-10
File — Box: 10, Folder: 6
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August 25, 1849. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell:
"You have a young brother here about 3 days old. He is a fine fellow and will soon want a situation in a Telegraph office."
September 8, 1849. Theodore S. Faxton to Ezra Cornell concerning settlement of Ezra Cornell's accounts with the New York, Albany & Buffalo Telegraph Company.
September 10, 1849. S.W. Hotchkiss to Ezra Cornell from Sheboygan concerning new lines under construction in the west, competition from O'Reilly, and the...
Dates:
1849-08-25 - 1849-09-10
Correspondence, 1849-09-11 - 1849-09-19
File — Box: 10, Folder: 7
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September 17, 1849. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell, diagrams and description of new "switch" he had developed which would allow transmitting of messages over long distances without rewriting (connecting circuits). 2nd letter, same date, concerns progress on new western lines (Cleveland & Cincinnati, St. Louis).
Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, New-York & Erie line, finances, Connecticut & Vermont line.
Personal names: Speed, J.J.; Tillotson,...
Dates:
1849-09-11 - 1849-09-19
Correspondence, 1849-09-20 - 1849-10-04
File — Box: 10, Folder: 8
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September 20, 1849. Beach Brothers to Ezra Cornell inquiring as to arrangements for transmission of news messages for The New York Sun
over the New-York & Erie and the Erie & Michigan lines. (Letter of October 1, 1849 indicates this idea has been abandoned by the Beach Brothers)
September 20, 1849. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell concerning prospects looking good for new western lines, O'Reilly conflict, and connecting circuits.
September 23, 1849. Phebe Wood to Ezra Cornell:
"I think...
Dates:
1849-09-20 - 1849-10-04
Correspondence, 1849-10-05 - 1849-10-18
File — Box: 10, Folder: 9
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October 1849. George B. Prescott's answer to the bill of complaint by Ezra Cornell.
October 7, 1849. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell, regarding Speed's new circuit connector:
"You say work the telegraph as it is, and not allow myself to chase Jack-O-Lanterns. I answer yes, if I cannot make the public believe that my Jack-O-Lantern is a real bonafide lighthouse - and induce them to pay me their money to help build it."
October 9, 1849. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell reprimanding him for closing...
Dates:
1849-10-05 - 1849-10-18
Correspondence, 1849-10-20 - 1849-10-31
File — Box: 10, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
October 20, 1849. D.T. Tillotson to Ezra Cornell reporting on survey of Chenango Valley. October 20, 1849. E.D Benedict to operators connected with Cleveland and Pittsburgh line detailing a
"system of doing business in regular order, and promptly, at the same time giving each and every office a fair and equal chance."
October 27, 1849. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell describing continued experiments with his switch.
October 29, 1849. Ezra Cornell to D.T. Tillotson discussing Ithaca area lines...
Dates:
1849-10-20 - 1849-10-31