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Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, salaries, patent rights. Personal names: Tillotson, L.G.; Ingersoll, C.M.; Curtis, E.H.; Speed, J.J. Geography: Penn Yan, N.Y.; Detroit; Ithaca, N.Y.

Scope and Contents February 24, 1851. Ezra Cornell to J.J. Speed discussing Speeds experiments and proposing that a consolidation of lines be considered. February 28, 1851. D.T. Tillotson to Ezra Cornell: "I am getting very short for want of money. My rects. are light & what I have recd. I have been paying up old debts with. I want some clothes very much but can't get them. It is now nearly 2 years since I commenced working for you & for the first 6 months I have hardly recd. a cent & not much for...

Scope and Contents July 16, 1851. J. C. Woodruff to Ezra Cornell: "The stockholders of your company are very much dissatisfied with your management from beginning to end, and are clamorous for a change in its management. Ithaca charges all its misfortunes upon you, and I do not see but you must stand Godfather to them all, fix it as you will. We have a line of telegraph that ought to pay well - substantially built - well arranged, and yet running into debt every day, and becoming a reproach and bye word among...

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July 28, 1851. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell concerning finances and management of western lines. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: office operations, finances, offices in railroad depots (cooperation between the businesses), meeting of directors of the New-York & Erie Telegraph Association. Personal names: Tillotson, L.G.; Speed, J.J.; Woodruff, L.C. Geography: Elmira, N.Y.

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Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, materials and supplies, office operations, New-York & Erie line. Personal names: Speed, J.J.; Munn, Stephen B.; Hopkins, P.A. Geography: Cleveland; Narrowsburgh, N.Y.