Scope and Contents February 10, 1852. Ezra Cornell to Edmond Coffin of Tarrytown, New York: "If your self and friends should still be desirous of securing the facilities of an office at Tarrytown either with or without branches extending to your dwellings, I should be hapy of an interview with you on the subject." February 15, 1852. Ezra Cornell to Orrin S. Wood: "In regard to my affairs, it is difficult for me to place an estimate upon them. I may be worth an hundred thusand dollars if I live a year or two...

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March 18, 1851. C.M. Ingersoll to Ezra Cornell from Newburgh regarding payment of operators. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, demands for payment, office operations. Personal names: Speed, J.J.; Wade, J.H.; Ingersoll, C.M.; Cornell, Alonzo B.; Cornell, E.B. Geography: Cleveland; Ithaca, N.Y.

Scope and Contents April 18, 1851. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell from Detroit reporting on western lines (Zanesville & Wheeling, Zanesville & Pittsburgh) and possible agreements with railroads. May 3, 1851. Alonzo B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell concerning the insurance sold by Alonzo. May 13, 1851. Report of the Ithaca Falls Company. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, demands for payment, materials and supplies. Personal names: Skinner, G.W.; Ingersoll, C.M.; Speed,...

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Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: office operations, finances Personal names: Speed, J.J.; Ingersoll, C.M.; Kendall, Amos; Shippen, W. Geography:

Scope and Contents August 27, 1851. L.C. Woodruff to Ezra Cornell expressing support of leasing the New-York & Erie line to Ezra Cornell. September 6, 1851. Mckinney Irion to Ezra Cornell from Wolf River, Tennessee: "My neighbour Mr. McNeal has received some of your beautiful wheat and I am so pleased with it causes me to ask the kind favour of you to send me a small quantity?." September 16, 1851. Ezra Cornell to Amos Kendall: "My courage is fast failing. I have worked hard and incessently for the last...

Scope and Contents October 5, 1851. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell: "I think Faxton is trying to make an arrangement with the OR line to get their bus & give them half of his. As soon as he does so I will make a bargain with the House folks and give them & Bain our Eastern business this side of NY, and the NY bus until you get so you can do it?" October 6, 1851. J.J. Speed to Directors and Stockholders of New-York & Erie Telegraph Company reporting on telegraph lines and the business they are doing,...

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December 21, 1851. John S. Bristol to Ezra Cornell expressing condolences on the death of Ezra Cornell's son Ezra. 1851. Petition for renewal of Patent for "Cornell's improved pipelayer." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: office operations, finances, materials and supplies, New-York & Erie line, consolidation of lines. Personal names: Munn, Stephen B.; Livingston, Johnston; Speed, J.J.; Bristol, John S.; Beebe, Jeremiah S.; Cornell, Ezra (son of the Founder). Geography:

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January 15, 1852. Ezra Cornell to J.J. Speed reporting the sale of the New-York & Erie line: "I shall soon get the N.Y.&E. in good shape, and get up a good feeling, and I must have a chance at the western business." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: New-York & Erie line, office operations, finances. Personal names: Smith, C.M.; Munn, Stephen B.; Speed, J.J.; Livingston, Johnston; Dunham, J.; Hopkins, P.A.; Cornell, Alonzo B. Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.

Scope and Contents March 20, 1852. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell discussing western business and Speed's proposal of a printing telegraph. March 22, 1852. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell: "What say you to making one desparate effort to retrieve the past, and provide for the future by going to California & building a line?." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: New-York & Erie line, office operations, finances. Personal names: Speed, J.J.; Wood, Otis E.; Wood, Benjamin; Hopkins, P.A. Geography:...

Scope and Contents 1848-1851. Extracts from O'Reilly's letters to Delano. January 21, 1851. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell discussing telegraph office operations, the possible dishonesty of an operator, and business with Hotchkiss. February 4, 1851. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell concerning business with Faxton. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, materials and supplies, office operations.; New-York & Erie Telegraph Company Personal names: O'Reilly, Henry; Delano, W.J.; Speed, J.J.; Hotchkiss,...