Scope and Contents Topics: Cornell University: opening of the University, students, student living quarters, inauguration of President and professors, faculty, scholarships; allegedly illicit transfer of specimens from Cooper Institute to Cornell University; Cornell family genealogy and history; Photo-lithography business; East India Telegraph; American Photo-Lithographic Company Personal names: Cornell, Mary Ann; Taber, Susan J.; Earle, Pliny; Rooker, Thomas N.; Joy, Arad; Woodward, W.A.; Cailiff, Cornelia...

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Topics: Cornell University: opening of the University, students, faculty; women's education; Photo-lithography business; American Photo-Lithographic Company; cattle; Sandwich Islands expedition (Honolulu); Western Reserve Institute. Personal names: Cornell, D.B.; Cornell, Austin; Newcomb, Wesley; Cailiff, Cornelia; Shepard, S.E. Geography:

Scope and Contents October 30, 1868. Burt Green Wilder to Ezra Cornell: "There is a general feeling of insecurity among those of us who occupy the upper floors of Cascadilla, and both Pres'd White and myself have ordered Rope Ladders for escape in case of fire: but I have not thought it necessary to ask their formal cooperation in the request I now make of you: That a Fire Extinguisher of medium size be placed in the center of each of the floors -- and that a proper number of persons be instructed in their...

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Topics: Cornell University: opening of the University, students, faculty; synopsis of remarks by Goldwin Smith (Nov. 17, 1868) before the students of the University and citizens of Ithaca; DeRuyter Institute; Cornell family genealogy and history; Newcomb's expedition Personal names: Montague, J.; Smith, Goldwin; Rooker, Thomas N.; Newcomb, Wesley; Howe, Lester; Cornell, D.B. Geography:

Scope and Contents November 24, 1868. Ezra Cornell to William F. Allen describing the charter and function of Cascadilla Place and its use by Cornell University. November 26, 1868. W.A. Woodward to Louis Agassiz regarding student labor. Topics: Cornell University: opening of the University, students, faculty, Library; Cascadilla Place; Western Union Telegraph Company: stock; Cornell family genealogy and history; Newcomb's expedition; telegraph business correspondence Personal names: Agassiz, Louis; Palmer,...

Scope and Contents December 18, 1868. Ezra Cornell to R.R. Williams, Ithaca Fire Chief: "I also deeply sympathize with [the firemen] in the hardships and vexation arising from the false alarm of the other evening which called them forth at midnight, and regret exceedingly that the folly of thoughtless youth should thus multiply their labors?. Please accept the enclosed hundred dollars for the firemen of Ithaca as a small token of my regard." Topics: Cornell University: opening of the University, students,...

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January 1, 1869. from New York City describing books bought for the family, affairs in New York and Albany, and family finances. Topics: DeRuyter Institute; Newcomb's expedition; Ithaca Fire Department; cattle; Photo-lithography business; Cornell University: students, announcements, curricula, costs. Personal names: Cornell, E.S.; Newcomb, Wesley; Crysler, Cornell; Rooker, Thomas N.; Rowell, Mary; Cornell, Mary Ann Geography:

Scope and Contents January 17, 1869. proposing an education/work system: "The letters [pre 1845] however have been a source of rare enjoyment for me, and has carried me back a score of years to the period of your heroic trials, when in poverty you struggled so nobly to care for and bring up properly our dear children during the absence which a like struggle imposed on me?. Honors cheaply won are lightly esteemed." January 30, 1869. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell: "Don't mention this as I don't want to get...

Scope and Contents February 13, 1869. Hiram Sibley to Ezra Cornell from Rome: "Every body I see in Europe seems to regard with favor the plan & Policy Inaugurated by yourself & Prest. White and all predict a glorious future for the Cornell University. It has been a source of especial Pride & pleasure to me to witness the interest manifest by the men of learning everywhere I go in the "New University" (as they call it) to distinguish it from any one of the Old Established and to convey the idea of...

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Topics: Cornell family genealogy and history; Ithaca churches; Cornell University: Library, Personal names: Cornell, D.B.; Washburn, Lucy M.; Chace, Miller; Barnard, Eunice; Fiske, Willard; Smith, Goldwin; Rooker, Thomas N. Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.