May 26, 1867. Mary Ann Cornell to Ezra Cornell: "I thought I would improve the dreary hours of this gloomy day in writing. Today commences the last quarter of the moon and if we have a rainy week this week, we may look for three weeks more rainy weather after that, according to the old calculations for the weather. This is a very lonesome day indeed and I don't know but I shall have the blues before night." Topics: Cornell University: buildings, finances, establishment of Library; military education; agriculture; railroads; Western Union Telegraph Company; Smithsonian Institution Personal names: Cornell, D.B.; Faxton, Theodore S.; Kelly, William; Wood, Phebe Geography: