July 24, 1869. Ezra Cornell to Mattie Curran from Ithaca: "Miss Mattie Curran There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females. Please study the subject and see what can be done for them. Respectfully yours Ezra Cornell" July 26, 1869. Thomas N. Rooker to Ezra Cornell: "Come away from Ithaca to the seashore for a short time. It will do you all good?. My wire window shades and wire doors are in their places and I am glad to tell you that my wife says, now that they are up and do not bother her as she thought they would, "they are the nicest things she ever had in her house." We hoist all of our windows, open our doors, and then sit down and laugh at the flies and bugs as they butt their heads against the wire cloth, trying to get in." July 31, 1869. Andrew Dickson White to Ezra Cornell from Swampscott discussing University buildings, campus roads, faculty, and advertisement of the Agricultural and Mechanical departments: "?we must take special pains to strengthen the Agricultural & Mechanical Departments. Other departments will be filled easily enough -- but these which by the Law of Congress are made leading departments must be kept constantly before the people." August 3, 1869. Andrew Dickson White to Ezra Cornell from Swampscott: "I want to go with you to see Greely to have a talk with him about the University. It is very evident to me that the sectarian plot against us is coming to a head very fast. Their paper addresses & sermons are venomous. One of them last week contained three distinct attacks on our unchristian character." Topics: Cornell University: buildings, advertisement; Western Union Telegraph Company; women's education; Cornell villa; agricultural machinery Personal names: Cornell, D.B.; Curran, Mattie; Rooker, Thomas N.; Wood, M.B.; Beecher, Catharine E.; White, Andrew Dickson; Cornell, D.B. Geography: