Scope and Contents June 25, 1864. Mrs. Paul Cornell (Keturah M.) to Ezra Cornell from Portsmouth, N.C. describing her losses in the war. July 11, 1864. Paul J. Cornell to Ezra Cornell from Portsmouth, N.C. requesting loan from Ezra Cornell to reestablish himself in business in the South, possibly by speculating in cotton. July 19, 1864. John W. Cornell to Ezra Cornell describing conditions in a naval hospital in Chelsea, Mass. Topics: cattle; Montezuma Swamp; New York State Legislature; Massachusetts "cattle...

Scope and Contents July 20, 1864. D.B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell from camp near Memphis, Tenn.: "My health is very good & the condition of my jaw's as such that I can eat any rations but hard tack, & I much prefer field to Hospital duty." July 20, August 1, 1864. J.H. Millspaugh to Ezra Cornell requesting his assistance in starting a photography studio in Ithaca, and making use of a room in the library building. July 23, 1864. D.B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell from camp near Memphis, Tenn. requesting his...

Scope and Contents August 11, 1864. D.B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell from Camp at St. Charles, Ark. August 27, 1864. B. Cassedy of the Office of the Commissioners of Emigration to Ezra Cornell concerning laborers for the building of the library. Topics: New York State canals; offer of natural history collections; steam agricultural machinery; telegraph business correspondence: stock; cattle; Cornell Public Library Personal names: Howell, R.; Cornell, D.B.; Adams, W.H.; Jewett, E.; Lummis, W.; Lee, W.; Cornell,...

Scope and Contents September 5, 1864. C.S. Lozier, M.D. to Ezra Cornell concerning a scholarship to the New York Medical College for Women. Topics: New York State Agricultural Company; Western Union Telegraph Company; New York State Agricultural College (Ovid); telegraph business correspondence: inventions; steam agricultural machinery Personal names: Johnson, B.P.; Palmer, O.H.; Beebe, Alvah; Lozier, C.S., M.D.; Hawley, G.P.; Cornell, John H.; Lee, W.; Jewett, E.; Cornell, J.W. Geography: Ithaca,...

Scope and Contents October 3, 1864. "Ella" in New Hampshire to Ezra Cornell: "?I am gifted with what my teachers say, an uncommonly beautiful voice for singing, and being passionately fond of music, I have tried hard to get the means to purchase me an instrument, a Melodeon, is what I have always wished for. My parents have not the means to help me, and having no one else in this wide world to ask assistance of, it gave me encouragement to ask you, an entire stranger, when I read of your generosity. O! kind...

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Topics: New York State Agricultural College; Family correspondence Personal names: Valk, Lawrence B.; Joy, Arad; Cornell, Keturah; Cornell, J.W.; Wood, Phebe; Chace, Eunice; Johnson, B.P.; Allen, A.B.; Cornell, John H.; Raplee, S.S; Robertson, Mary C.; Lee, W. Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.; Albion

Scope and Contents October 24, 1864. P. J. Cornell to Ezra Cornell from Portsmouth, N.C. describing his life and business ventures in the South. October 28, 1864. Wilbur F. Crummer to Ezra Cornell from Pleasant Valley, Ill.: "I see you have given $50,000 for a public Library to be formed in Ithica N.Y. now can you give a poor wounded invalid soldier, who is closely confined to the house, some few books or magazines to read through the coming winter? I love to read, but am to poor to buy the works I should like...

Scope and Contents November 18, 1864. D.B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell from camp at St. Louis, Mo. describing marches and his interest in purchasing farmlands near Sedalia, Mo. December 16, 1864. Amos Brown to Ezra Cornell from Havana discussing the People's College and asking Ezra Cornell that he consider building his college in Havana or Ovid. Topics: Civil War; re-election of Lincoln; sheep; cattle; real estate; New York State Legislature; telegraph business correspondence Personal names: Legg, Louis P.;...

Scope and Contents December 17, 1864. W.F. Crummer to Ezra Cornell from Pleasant Valley, Illinois: "The package of books you were so kind in sending me have, after some delay, arrived in safety and I hasten to acknowledge the receipt of the same and to thank you a thousand times for the books?I anticipate a great deal of profit and pleasure in the perusal of them." December 18, 1864. W. Kelly to Gov. Fenton concerning New York State Agricultural College: "A most generous offer of endowment has recently been...

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Topics: Family correspondence; Exhibition of Arts and Industries in Bombay; New York State Legislature: letters from constituents Personal names: Cornell, E.S.; Cornell, John H.; Hopkins, P.A.; Wood, M.B.; Rowell, Mary; Chace, Rebecca; Cornell, Alonzo B. Geography: Albany, N.Y.