October 9, 1865. Ezra Cornell in response to a request for a loan: "I declined the loan as I have now to borrow money for my own use." October 10, 1865. John W. Cornell to Ezra Cornell: "I send you the Rawligh paper Journal of Freedom whitch gives the procedens of the Niggro Convention?" October 15, 1865. M.B. Wood to Ezra Cornell: "I feel that I am fast loosing all ambition to do anything more of service to the world. ?Robinson has been down to the oil regions & has petroleum on the brain. ?That [Deborah] should come here on a visit and in less than two months break friendship with Mary & James family and get into a general Row all round is outrageous & scandalous to say the least. I have taken no part in the bickerings myself, but you ought to hear Phebe blow her out once in a while, she can do it 'as if written in a book.'" Also undigitized letter to Hon. Lucius Robinson, Oct. 27, 1865 regarding the purchase of 100,000 acres of the college land script with Western Union stock Topics: Cornell University: founding, establishment of Library; Genesee College, ; Family correspondence; Land Grant Act; Wisconsin lands; Michigan Agricultural College, ; Elmira Female College, ; Nevada gold mines, ; Wheelock Farm, Jacksonville, New York, ; Vassar College; New York State canals Personal names: Cornell, John W.; Wood, M.B. Geography: