Scope and Contents February 22, 1866. F.M. Finch to Ezra Cornell proposing disposition of Cascadilla Place, and suggesting plans for Cornell University and the Cornell Public Library: "But even if your judgment will not carry you as far as this at least I do think that Cascadilla Place should begin the University even if ultimately all the other buildings should be on the North side of the creek." Topics: Ithaca Canal Line; New York State Legislature: legislation, letters from constituents and others; Ithaca...

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Topics: Western Union Telegraph Company; Ezra Cornell portrait; Wisconsin lands; prospectus for Illinois College; New York State canals; New York State Legislature: legislation, letters from constituents and others Personal names: Chester, E.W.; Wright, George B.; Millard, Ira; Chace, Elijah C.; Turner, J.B.; Cornell, Alonzo B.; Wood, O.S. Geography:

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March 14, 1866. Draft report of the Committee on Buildings. Topics: Cornell University: buildings; Ithaca and Towanda Rail Road Company; Cornell Public Library Personal names: Geography:

Scope and Contents March 17, 1866. John Stanton Gould to Ezra Cornell: "When I learn whether your views correspond with mine in relation to the religious teaching at the University, I will write to you my ideas with regard to a few other fundamental matters connected with the plan of the University." May 25, 1866. Draft of a letter by Ezra Cornell: "I expect thus to appropriate the balance of my life, and the labors which I have selected, the building up of a first class University, will afford an abundant...

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Topics: New York State Legislature: legislation, letters from constituents and others; Land Grant Act; tax exemptions; Wisconsin lands; animal cruelty; agriculture; Western Union Telegraph Company; Ithaca and Towanda Rail Road Company; Ezra Cornell portrait; Cornell University: buildings, plan; Cascadilla Place Personal names: Cornell, D.B.; Cornell, W.J.; Nivison, S.S.; Pinkham, F.W. Geography:

Scope and Contents April 13, 1866. Ezra Cornell to Henry Wells: "Your grounds at Aurora also afford a beautiful and healthy location for such an institution. ?I shall venture a suggestion. It is this, that instead of building a Female Seminary at Aurora, which would be but one of an hundred like institutions scatered over our state, and which though it flourished while you lived, and it was fostered by your care and judgment, might soon dwindle and droop when your fostering hand was withdrawn by death, built...