Scope and Contents August 31, 1846. F.O.J. Smith to Ezra Cornell: "I am sorry to learn from various sources of your having frequently made me the subject of much unfavorable conjecture and remark with men in my employ, as well as with others, in connexion with a female with whome you boarded in New York. Now I ask no man to become the keper of my morals or character?" Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: technical matters, establishment of new lines, stock subscriptions, E.B. Cornell seeks employment,...

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October 7, 1846. Incidence of vandalism of the New York line. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: technical matters, establishment of new lines, proposed line between Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, price per transmission. Personal names: Smith, F.O.J.; Eddy, James; Bullock, A.B. Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.; New York City

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October 15, 1846. Telegraph stock, shares, dividends. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: technical matters, proposals for establishment of new lines, finances. Personal names: Brown, F.A.; Kendall, Amos; Bullock, A.B.; Cornell, E.B.; Eddy, James Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.; Hudson, N.Y.

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October 20, 1846. Negotiation of stock transfers (Ithaca Telegraph Company). Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: technical matters, establishment of new lines, complication of communication among stations in New York State. Personal names: Brown, F.A.; Faxton, Theodore; Eddy, James; Smith, F.O.J.; O'Reilly, Henry; Wood, Phebe; Speed, J.J. Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.

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Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: magnetic clocks, patent application, articles of agreement. Personal names: Speed, J.J. Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.

Scope and Contents November 9, 1846. Instructions to employee Curtis from Ezra Cornell on operation of telegraph wires: "Order must be obeyed right or wrong. It is the only way to preserve harmony in the working of the line." November 19, 1846. D.B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell: "I have had quite a notion lately of learning to write on the telegraph and should like your advice on the subject?for if there is anything to be made by it I should like to have my share." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence:...

Scope and Contents December 6, 1846. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell: "To be frank with you I have my doubts whether it would be for your interest to engage in the telegraph business even were you qualified to do it properly, but you are not thus qualifide?" December 15, 1846. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell: "I was quite surprised to see that you wrote so well on the telegraph with the little chance you have had to learn. I have no objection to your learning to thus write if you will not let it attract...

Scope and Contents December 20, 1846. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell: "?I should prefer that you would choose a rural occupation, and become an intelligent scientific farmer. The time is not distant when such farmers will be more respected and they will be more useful than Kings or Princes." n.d. Faxton to his operators concerning quality of transmissions: "On the 9th of September last the line of Telegraph was put in operation from New York to Buffalo, working through 8 offices?Its operation appeared to be...

Scope and Contents February 17, 1847. Theodore Faxton to Ezra Cornell: "I recommended Mr. Cornel for that place as a suitable and competent man, he was employed on the strength of that recomendation?I had recommended a man who was entirely unfit for the business and has spent more of his time for the 3 months in his own business than in that of the company? I felt not "elated" but ashamed and confounded at my own want of judgement in recommending a man who could so soon place me in a wrong position before the...

Scope and Contents February 20, 1847. Ezra Cornell to D.T. Tillotson: "The exisiting lines are doing a first rate business?the Ithaca & Elmira & Auburn line is doing much more business than was expected would be furnished by those places, and will be a paying line." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: notices of new lines in operation (Philadelphia & Pittsburgh, first of Atlantic, Lake and Mississippi), management of lines, attempts to sell stock in Chicago, patent rights, establishment of...