July 20, 1867. Andrew Dickson White to Ezra Cornell from Gloucester, Mass.: "I am often at Boston and spent Wednesday & Thursday at Cambridge, at Commencement, where they seem much interested in the Cornell University and called me out for a speech at the public dinner which I gave them?" July 27, 1867. Andrew Dickson White to Ezra Cornell from Gloucester, Mass.: "Day before yesterday I spent delightfully with Prof. Agassiz?. I had long conversations with him regarding the merits of different candidates for Scientific Professorships. He was very full and explicit. "He gave me very full information regarding collections. He thinks highly of the Newcomb Collection of shells at San Francisco and the Carpenter Collection at Montreal. I promised to send him the paper which you sent me for his judgement." Topics: Cornell University: buildings, landscape, faculty, natural history collections; Wisconsin lands; New York railroads; telegraph business correspondence: Russian extension stock; American Institute Personal names: Cornell, J.W.; Olmsted, Frederick Law; Putnam, H.C.; White, Andrew Dickson; Agassiz, Louis; Wood, M.B.; Barnard, D.R.; Hendricks, G.W. Geography: Eau Claire; Cambridge, Mass.; Gloucester, Mass.