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Box 15

 Container

Contains 13 Results:

Correspondence, 1854-07-11 - 1854-07-26

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

July 18, 1854. J.J. Speed to J.H. Wade concerning the sale of western lines. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, western lines; Speed's unapproved sale of telegraph stock and lines; Erie & Michigan Telegraph Company. Personal names: Read, James H.; Speed, J.J.; Wade, J.H. Geography:

Dates: 1854-07-11 - 1854-07-26

Correspondence, 1854-06-01 - 1854-06-09

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents June 1, 1854. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell: "This act of perfidy of Speed & W[ade] will lead to new combinations, whether the plans they had formed will all mature, or whether the frosts of treachery may not nip some of them in the bud remains to be seen, I should not be surprised if the latter was the fact." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, western lines; Speed's unapproved sale of telegraph stock and lines Personal names: Cornell, Mary...
Dates: 1854-06-01 - 1854-06-09

Correspondence, 1854-06-25 - 1854-07-08

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents June 27, 1854. Amos Kendall to Ezra Cornell: "I am disposed to act with you in carrying out, as far as we can, the arrangements of June 1853 and in punishing the conspirators by whom both you and my principal [S.F.B. Morse] have been betrayed and defrauded." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, western lines; Speed's unapproved sale of telegraph stock and lines; Erie & Michigan Telegraph Company. Personal names: Kendall, Amos; Read, James H. ...
Dates: 1854-06-25 - 1854-07-08