Scope and Contents September 19, 1853. D.B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell: "I?write again to ask what kind of employment you could give me and where would it and so forth if I should abandon the Idea of going to the gold diggins. My mind has been so unsettled since Maria's Death that I could hardly tell what I was going to do." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: office operations, finances; Ithaca land; extracts and transcripts of F.O.J. Smith letters. Personal names: Cornell, Mary Ann; Speed, J.J.;...

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Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: office operations, finances Personal names: Gordon, D.P. Geography:

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Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, western lines Personal names: Geography: Indiana; Ohio; Ithaca, N.Y.

Scope and Contents November 5, 1853. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell: "I think it probable that O'R has got [?] & may give us some trouble, in consequence of not carrying out his darling project of a grand consolidated Company, making him Pres't with a salary of five thousand dollars." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, western lines, consolidation of lines, transfer of lines; Union Telegraph, Speed and O'Reilly Lines. Personal names: Speed, J.J.; Cornell, Alonzo B.;...

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December 1, 1853. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell: "This is destined to be a great city. Chicago has now a population of over 50 thousand population and this will double and quadruple as rapedly as that of any other city of the union." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, western lines, consolidation of lines Personal names: Cornell, Mary Ann Geography: Chicago

Scope and Contents December 6, 1853. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell: "I have had some tooth ache this P.M. in an old snag that was left some ten years ago, when I went to Ithaca at midnight with Dennis McCoy the Irishman to hold my head. You may recollect the history of that terable night. Dr Miles (I think) pulled on it 3 times with his entire strength, and as offin the irons broke loos. The fourth pull broke the tooth taking the tooth with one prong out, and a piece of the jaw with it." Topics: Telegraph...

Scope and Contents March 7, 1853. describing a trip from Ithaca to Indianapolis via Cincinnati. March 20, 1853. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell: "Hard cider is fast retreating before the colums of the 'cold water army.' The Sons & Daughters of temperance are marching on to a sure and glorious victory." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, consolidation of lines, transfer of lines, patents and contracts, western lines; Telegraph Convention in Indianapolis. Personal...

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April 24, 1853. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell: "The history of Telegraph has therefor been a history of wars, and there are many of those contests unsettled?" Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, consolidation of lines, transfer of lines, patents and contracts, western lines; Ithaca land Personal names: Wood, Phebe; Smith, F.O.J.; Kendall, Amos; O'Reilly, Henry; Delano, W.J.; Wood, M.B.; Morse, Samuel F.B. Geography: Fall Creek (Ithaca)

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Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, consolidation of lines, transfer of lines, patents and contracts, western lines Personal names: Cornell, Mary Ann; Wood, O.S.; Chester, E.W. Geography: Indiana; Montreal; Chicago; Fall Creek (Ithaca)

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Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, western lines, materials and supplies, transfer of lines, consolidation of lines; account of a family trip west; Ithaca land Personal names: Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.