July 13, 1849. J.J. Speed in Detroit to Ezra Cornell: "You have warned me in the past to avoid experiments: but I am making one more. I have got a Mrs. Sheldon to take the office at Jackson and am going to get your sister Mrs. Wood to take the Albion office: both are abundantly qualified to do the business better than any boy, or man, that we can afford to pay in those places. If the ex works as well as I have every confidence to believe it will, I will put a woman in the offices at Ann Arbor, Marshall, & Battle Creek?." July 15, 1849. Alonzo B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell explaining the working of a telegraph line. July 20, 1849. S.W. McGowan to Ezra Cornell discussing possible new lines in northern New York and difficulties in selling subscriptions. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, stock subscriptions, materials and supplies, new lines. Personal names: Speed, J.J.; Cornell, Alonzo B.; Wood, M.L.; Tillotson, D.T.; Faxton, Theodore; Bristol, John S.; McGowan, S.W.; Jackson, Tower Geography: Detroit; Cleveland; Ithaca, N.Y.