March 18, 1865. F.M. Finch to Ezra Cornell: "On my return I was in the train thrown from the track near Susquehannah. We were running forty miles an hour and struck a broken rail. The two rear cars were thrown from the track down an embankment & ours dragged over the ties against a wood pile & yet we escaped. Some evil angels hang over my visits to Albany." March 20, 1865. Ezra Cornell to W.A. Woodward: "It is the telegraph that endows the University?It is my desire to secure still further endowments so that the institution shall at no time be embarassed by want of means, and shall at all times be able to command the best talent in America or in the world. I have one or two hundred thousand dollars more in prospective, and shall hope in a few years to gather around the enterprise another million." Topics: Cornell University: founding legislation; letters of support for the passage of the "Cornell University" bill; Soldiers Home; New York State Legislature: legislation, letters from constituents and others; agriculture; Cascadilla Institute; Ithaca flood; Wisconsin lands; Land Grant Act Personal names: Kelly, William; Woodward, W.A.; Boardman, Douglass; Selkreg, J.H.; Finch, F.M. Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.; Albany, N.Y.