Topics: Forest Park farm; New York State Legislature: letters from constituents and others; Civil War; cattle; agriculture; New York State Agricultural Rooms; Western Union Telegraph Company Personal names: Cornell, E.B.; Cornell, Franklin C.; Cornell, N.P.; Egbert, J.D.; Robertson, H.D.; Chester, E.W.; Finch, Jane Cornell; Cornell, O.H. Perry; Wood, O.S. Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.; Albany, N.Y.