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August 23, 1830. E.B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell from Manlius: "It's very sickly about here now, there is about 2 hundred patients under the phisician's care." Topics: Family correspondence; family health; travel; Quaker Meeting; Personal finances; news from friends and acquaintances (death of children, social events). Personal names: Cornell, Elijah; Cornell, E.B.; Eddy, Otis; Cornell, Mary Ann Geography: DeRuyter, N.Y.; Manlius, N.Y.; Ithaca, N.Y.

Scope and Contents February 24, 1832. Ezra Cornell's response to expulsion from Quaker Church due to his marriage to Mary Ann Wood: "I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice?" March 6, 1834. Ezra Cornell to Elijah Cornell: "I informed thee when thee was out that I had got out of debt and a little to spare but not being able to enjoy sound sleap while I remained in that situation (that some would...

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Topics: Management of Jeremiah Beebe's Ithaca affairs; textile mill; flour mill; women mill workers; tannery; water power Personal names: Cornell, Elijah; Cornell, E.B.; Beebe, Jeremiah S.; Whyte, Thomas; Blunt, Joseph; Bristol, John S.; Bristol, Elmira; Cornell, Mary Ann Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.

Scope and Contents October 6, 1839. Elijah Cornell to Ezra Cornell, regarding the economy: "But in observing the signs of the times I think it is time for people to sing small songs?" Topics: Family correspondence; family relations; business and financial matters; pottery; Cornell & Wright grocery; water power; mill machinery; Beebe's directives for businesses; letters of recommendation for trip East to view improvements in water power and to promote Ithaca as a manufacturing site; national politics;...

Scope and Contents July 15, 1841. Letter to the Trustees of the village of Ithaca concerning complaints about Ezra Cornell's bull. Topics: Business and financial correspondence; plans for rental housing in Ithaca; cattle; New York State Agricultural Society; Barnaby and Mooers side hill plow, and correspondence to Maine pertaining to selling of plows and plow patent rights. Personal names: Dexter, S.; Beebe, Jeremiah S.; Blunt, Joseph; Flagg, J. P.; Mooers, Henry; Cornell, Mary Ann Geography: Ithaca,...

Scope and Contents 1842. Ezra Cornell to the editor of the Maine Farmer regarding Maine's potential as an agricultural state. August 27, 29, and September 29, 1842 concerning Cornell pottery. January 23, 1843. Samuel F.B. Morse to Archibald L. Linn with sketch of his electromagnetic telegraph instrument. Morse alphabet added to letter by Ezra Cornell, February 18, 1873. January 31, 1843. and children describing a four day journey from Ithaca to New York City via stage, railroad, and steamer, relating...

Scope and Contents February 10, 1843. and children: "?I have got 57 cents left but there is always a way when there is a will and I will get along somehow. I shall have to let you pay the postage on letters?" March 11, 1843. and children: "I arrived at this place last evening very much fatigued with a walk of 150 miles from Charleston through snow and rain?" April 2, 1843. and children giving instructions on family deportment, an account of a murder trial, and comment on Mesmerism, religion, personal faith...

Scope and Contents September 3, 1843. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann and children: "Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron." October 28, 1843. Correspondence concerning trench digging and pipe laying machine. October 29, 1843. describing telegraph pipe laying; Ezra Cornell's "flattering" business offers; settlement of Ithaca affairs; completion of plow business in Maine: "I can assure you my Dear that I breathe freer and deeper than I have done for some time past. I feel as though Old Dame Fortune was...

Scope and Contents February 16, 1844. Description of Franklin's printing press including a sketch, and a suggestion that it be displayed in the National Institute. February 26, 1844. and children describing and providing sketches of items observed in the National Institute, including detailed description of implements of war from the Fiji Islands. March 31, 1844. reflecting upon thirteen years of marriage: "We have avoided the quicksands of jealousy, the whirlpools of dissipation, the rocks of passion, and the...

Scope and Contents April 14, 1844. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell: "?for if I could get [Alonzo] a place at a dollar a day it would be better than some men could do, at any rate it would be better than loafing about fall Creek." April 21, 1844. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell: "We are getting along with the telegraph to a good advantage, and it works well, we have got out 14.5 miles from Washington, and at that distance I can converce with Professor Morse as readily as though I was within two feet of...