Box 25
Container
Contains 14 Results:
Correspondence, 1865-01-13 - 1865-01-23
File — Box: 25, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
January 15, 1865. Ezra Cornell to F.M. Finch:
"You will recv. an invitation to attend a meeting of eminent men, friends of education, at Albany?to inaugurate the movement for our Agricultural College, and a University at Ithaca?
"I have modified my proposition so that it proposes to donate $500,000, for the erection of a college at Ithaca on condition that the state will endow the institution with the entire land grant fund?
"Assuming that Beers is satisfied that the Peoples College is a...
Dates:
1865-01-13 - 1865-01-23
Correspondence, 1865-01-24 - 1865-01-31
File — Box: 25, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
January 25, 1865. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo Cornell:
"We had a respectable meeting and harmonious action -- Greely was with us and is with us. If the Peoples College dont move soon it must get out of the way and let us pass?"
January 27, 1865. Ezra Cornell to F.M. Finch:
"In reference to the College Movement I am sorry that Ithaca was not represented by any of its invited guests, this is an indifference unworthy the importance of the subject?
"The enterprise expands from an Agricultural...
Dates:
1865-01-24 - 1865-01-31
Correspondence, 1865-02-01 - 1865-02-20
File — Box: 25, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
February 1, 1865. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo Cornell concerning Col. Jewett's collection:
"I see you dont appreciate stones. If we have a college or University we shall have to procure a cabinet of Natural History and this as far as it goes is the best in the state and best in the world of the history of the N.Y. rock.
"College matter looks more hopeful, but I shall not go into fits to induce the state to accept $500,000 of my money."
February 8, 1865. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell from...
Dates:
1865-02-01 - 1865-02-20
Correspondence, 1865-02-21 - 1865-03-03
File — Box: 25, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
Topics: agriculture; telegraph business correspondence; cattle; Cornell University: founding legislation; Civil War (possibility of draft in New York State if more men do not volunteer). Personal names: Millspaugh, J.H.; Wood, O.S.; Ballard, Phebe; Cornell, E.B.; Chester, E.W.; Sherwood, S.P.; Jewett, E. Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.
Dates:
1865-02-21 - 1865-03-03