April 13, 1866. Ezra Cornell to Henry Wells: "Your grounds at Aurora also afford a beautiful and healthy location for such an institution. ?I shall venture a suggestion. It is this, that instead of building a Female Seminary at Aurora, which would be but one of an hundred like institutions scatered over our state, and which though it flourished while you lived, and it was fostered by your care and judgment, might soon dwindle and droop when your fostering hand was withdrawn by death, built at Ithaca, "The Wells female department of the Cornell University" and thus aid us to engraft female education in America." Also iterates the financial arrangements pertaining to the founding of Cornell University. Topics: Cornell University: buildings, plan, founding; Wells College; Wisconsin lands; Jewett's Paleontological Cabinet; Western Union Telegraph Company Personal names: Wells, Henry; Jewett, E.; White, Andrew Dickson; Horner, John; Wood, M.B.; Kelly, William Geography: