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Topics: Cornell University: buildings, plan; child labor laws; Wisconsin lands; cattle; Binghamton Charter Personal names: Chester, E.W.; Brown, Amos Geography: Binghamton, N.Y.; Brooklyn

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Topics: People's College; agriculture; Cornell University: buildings, finances. Personal names: Brown, Amos; Rooker, Thomas N.; Darling, Charles A.; Cornell, D.B.; Faxton, Theodore S.; Finch, F.M. Geography: Brooklyn

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Topics: New York State Legislature: legislation, letters from constituents and others; New York State canals; Wisconsin lands; Cornell University: buildings; Cornell family genealogy and history Personal names: Rooker, Thomas N.; Glenny, William; Wilcox, H.U.; Sibley, Hiram; Cook, Ann E. Geography:

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April 26, 1867. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell: "White went to Buffalo last night, undecided yet which building to put up next." Topics: Cornell University: buildings; Williams College; New York State Legislature: legislation, letters from constituents and others Personal names: Tenney, Sanborn; Curtiss, George; White, Andrew Dickson; Wood, O.S.; Jewett, E. Geography: Binghamton, N.Y.; Ithaca, N.Y.

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May 12, 1867. Mary Ann Cornell to Ezra Cornell: "Mary writes she wants some money very much. I don't know why she always applies to me for money for I have none for her, nor any way to get any that I know of." Topics: Telegraph industry: European lines; Cornell University: landscaping; cattle Personal names: Wood, O.S.; Cornell, Mary Ann; Cornell, D.B.; Garfield, Charles L.; White, Andrew Dickson; Rice, E.T. Geography:

Scope and Contents May 26, 1867. Mary Ann Cornell to Ezra Cornell: "I thought I would improve the dreary hours of this gloomy day in writing. Today commences the last quarter of the moon and if we have a rainy week this week, we may look for three weeks more rainy weather after that, according to the old calculations for the weather. This is a very lonesome day indeed and I don't know but I shall have the blues before night." Topics: Cornell University: buildings, finances, establishment of Library; military...