June 22, 1845. and children describing stage coach journey: "The night got rather cool and a great coat would have been comfortable but I did not suffer at all for the want of one and I'm inclined to the opinion that the absence of the warmth from an overcoat was all that saved me from stage sickness if so the circumstance may be given as another evidence that 'poverty is a blessing.' "The children must not be idle, they must study some, work some, and play some, they must be at something all the time." Health, possible routes out of the city for the telegraph, visit to old neighborhood (Bergen county), Staten Island. June 30, 1845. and children concerning the approaching Fourth of July: "?the only guarantee the present generation has that our free and hapy form of government will be handed down unimpaired as it came from the hands of our Patriot Fathers, to our children and our children's children is in universal education?Then let Universal Education be the Patriot's wachword?" Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: rights of way, construction, materials and supplies. Personal names: Kendall, Amos; Cornell, Mary Ann; Smith, F.O.J.; Burbank, David Geography: New York City