February 17, 1847. Theodore Faxton to Ezra Cornell: "I recommended Mr. Cornel for that place as a suitable and competent man, he was employed on the strength of that recomendation?I had recommended a man who was entirely unfit for the business and has spent more of his time for the 3 months in his own business than in that of the company? I felt not "elated" but ashamed and confounded at my own want of judgement in recommending a man who could so soon place me in a wrong position before the Board." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: establishment of new lines (plans for Toronto to Quebec, Quebec to Halifax, Toronto to Buffalo, Toronto to Detroit), patent rights, instruments, finances, magnets, Speed and Tillotson corresponding about telegraph to compete with Morse's; Michigan's potential as an agricultural state; family news from Michigan. Personal names: Kendall, Amos; Speed, J.J.; Smith, F.O.J.; Wood, O.S.; Tillotson, D.T.; Wood, Phebe; Faxton, Theodore Geography: Michigan; Ithaca, N.Y.