February 11, 1864. Douglass Boardman to Ezra Cornell describing a tableaux theatrical presentation in Ithaca. February 14, 1864. D.B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell from convalescent hospital where he is a nurse: "If I were doing any thing to help crush the rebellion I would not murmer, but to have been shot in the way I was, and that too within three minutes after getting in sight of the Devils for the first time, and then not being premitted to go back to the field when I could actualy do more duty than four such men as they have been sending back who have recovered (or rather partialy recovered) from the various ills contracted in camp life, I tell you it is rather chilling." Topics: New York State Legislature: legislation, letters from constituents; New York State canals; Cornell Public Library; Land Grant Act; People's College; agriculture; Cayuga Lake. Personal names: Pew, W.P.; Wood, M.B.; Boardman, Douglass; Glenny, William; Spaulding, Henry C.; Wells, Henry; Cornell, E.B.; Cornell, D.B. Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.