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January 21, 1856. on the raising of daughters and deportment of young women. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, western lines, consolidation of lines; New York State canals Personal names: Cornell, Alonzo B.; Curtiss, George; Speed, J.J.; Sholes, C.C.; Chace, Rebecca Geography:

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March 2, 1856. on the raising of daughters and deportment of young women. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, western lines, consolidation of lines; New York, Albany & Buffalo Electro Magnetic Telegraph Company; Associated Press of New York; Montreal Telegraph Company. Personal names: Wood, O.S.; Cornell, Mary Ann Geography:

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Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, western lines, consolidation of lines, stock transfers, leases; Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company; New York and Western Union Telegraph Company.; New York and Erie Railroad Company; change of name from New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company to Western Union Telegraph Company. Personal names: Cornell, E.S.; Kendall, Amos; Cornell, Elijah Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.; Indiana

Scope and Contents May 12, 1856. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell, giving her additional stock in the Erie & Michigan Telegraph Company. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, western lines, new lines (Syracuse-Binghamton and Upstate lines); relocation of parents of Ezra Cornell and disposition of their worldly goods; Erie & Michigan Telegraph Company.; Western Union Telegraph Company Personal names: Cornell, Eunice; Cornell, Elijah; Poucher, Thaddeus; Curtiss,...

Scope and Contents June 29, 1856. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell: "?had a lovely passage to Detroit, arriving at 3 P.M. yesterday, One of those floating Hotels is the greatest luxury of the hot season and nothing could have rendered the sojourn of a day on the 'Rock' more pleasant except your company and Emma's & Mary's." July 4, 1856. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell: "The anniversary of Our Independence is being celebrated in various ways but not so as to attract any special notice. I feel more...

Scope and Contents July 20, 1856. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell: "Mary and Jane went to Methodist [church], and H[iram] to the Spiritualist, and Phebe railed about it, and says she don't want any of her friends to call and see her who will go to a Spiritual meeting, so goes the world - and so it always went. Oh! dear me, will it ever be better?" August 20, 1856. Ezra Cornell's letter to the American Citizen of Ithaca: "As for the Pope, I am to old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow...

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September 21, 1856. Rebecca Chace to Ezra Cornell on presidential elections. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, western lines, consolidation of lines, stock transfers; slavery; national politics Personal names: Chace, Rebecca; Curtiss, George Geography: Providence, R.I.

Scope and Contents November 30, 1856. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell: "I have begged $110 for the sufferers in Kansas the past 3 days by heading the subscription myself with $10. I got B.G. Ferris $5 & H. Dow $5, the balance from Republicans--I shall pay it to the National Kansas Committee at Chicago." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, western lines, consolidation of lines, stock transfers; slavery; national politics; pottery; railroad rights in Lansing, N.Y. ...

Scope and Contents January 22, 1857. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell: "I went with at the urgent request of a friend last night to converse with the spirits, He being a firm believer, and having had satisfactory confabs. The Spirit who conversed with me, the medium said was that of my Grandfather Reuben Barnard, who attempted to answer questions that I asked, but as no one of a dozen questions was answered right, I came to the conclusion that it was not the spirit of my Grand Father for he was a man of great...

Scope and Contents February 23, 1857. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell: "I am sorry to hear that Jane is no better, it is a state of partial insanity, growing out of a morbid religious excitement, it is a religion without reason, reason should be the basis of religion?" February 27, 1857. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell: "I am planning for the removal to the farm. There is much to do, to get things fixed, but it will be a nice place, and your mother is already pleased as every else appears to be. I can tell...