January 17, 1869. proposing an education/work system: "The letters [pre 1845] however have been a source of rare enjoyment for me, and has carried me back a score of years to the period of your heroic trials, when in poverty you struggled so nobly to care for and bring up properly our dear children during the absence which a like struggle imposed on me?. Honors cheaply won are lightly esteemed." January 30, 1869. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell: "Don't mention this as I don't want to get the reputation of being a stock speculator, and if it was known here that it was my stock that was sold it would have the effect to depress the market." Topics: Cornell University: professorships, scholarships; Family correspondence; Newcomb's expedition; telegraph industry (trial) Personal names: Cornell, D.B.; Rooker, Thomas N.; Wood, Daniel; Chace, Miller; Conkling, Roscoe; Newcomb, Wesley; Schuyler, G.W. Geography: