Scope and content Records relating to Ezra Cornell's land business, primarily in Wisconsin, but also in Minnesota and Kansas, and to the financial dealings of the university in its first forty years. Includes account books, day books, cash books, ledgers, plat books, land scrip book, lists of lands, tax registers, survey notes, maps, and atlases. Includes correspondence with Ezra Cornell, W. A. Woodward, and Cornell Treasurers, J. W. Williams and E. L. Williams, and correspondence of Henry C. Putnam,...

Scope and content Letters from J. W. Williams, Treasurer, Cornell University, 1875-1877; from Henry W. Sage, 1871-1887; from Ezra Cornell, 1866-1874; from W. A. Woodward, 1858-1867; from C. S. Sargent, 1885-1904; and Jeremiah W. Dwight, 1871-1872. Other correspondents include Charles B. Lamborn, Azariah Freeman, N. C. Ransom, E. W. Culver, and J. G. Thrush. Also, Putnam Lumber Business statistics and land books; deeds, contracts, receipts, and cost accounts; and photostat of obituary from the Eau Claire Daily...

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Entries in the first volume largely concern his duties at Cascadilla Place, which had lecture roooms and laboratories and was also a boarding house for students and faculty and President White. Woodward's worries ranged from bad drains to unpaid tuition, homesick students, and Goldwin Smith's need for a stenographer. The second volume is the "superintendant's cash account book."