Scope and Contents 1848-1851. Extracts from O'Reilly's letters to Delano. January 21, 1851. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell discussing telegraph office operations, the possible dishonesty of an operator, and business with Hotchkiss. February 4, 1851. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell concerning business with Faxton. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, materials and supplies, office operations.; New-York & Erie Telegraph Company Personal names: O'Reilly, Henry; Delano, W.J.; Speed, J.J.; Hotchkiss,...

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Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, salaries, patent rights. Personal names: Tillotson, L.G.; Ingersoll, C.M.; Curtis, E.H.; Speed, J.J. Geography: Penn Yan, N.Y.; Detroit; Ithaca, N.Y.

Scope and Contents February 24, 1851. Ezra Cornell to J.J. Speed discussing Speeds experiments and proposing that a consolidation of lines be considered. February 28, 1851. D.T. Tillotson to Ezra Cornell: "I am getting very short for want of money. My rects. are light & what I have recd. I have been paying up old debts with. I want some clothes very much but can't get them. It is now nearly 2 years since I commenced working for you & for the first 6 months I have hardly recd. a cent & not much for...

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March 18, 1851. C.M. Ingersoll to Ezra Cornell from Newburgh regarding payment of operators. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, demands for payment, office operations. Personal names: Speed, J.J.; Wade, J.H.; Ingersoll, C.M.; Cornell, Alonzo B.; Cornell, E.B. Geography: Cleveland; Ithaca, N.Y.

Scope and Contents April 18, 1851. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell from Detroit reporting on western lines (Zanesville & Wheeling, Zanesville & Pittsburgh) and possible agreements with railroads. May 3, 1851. Alonzo B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell concerning the insurance sold by Alonzo. May 13, 1851. Report of the Ithaca Falls Company. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, demands for payment, materials and supplies. Personal names: Skinner, G.W.; Ingersoll, C.M.; Speed,...

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Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: office operations, finances Personal names: Speed, J.J.; Ingersoll, C.M.; Kendall, Amos; Shippen, W. Geography:

Scope and Contents July 16, 1851. J. C. Woodruff to Ezra Cornell: "The stockholders of your company are very much dissatisfied with your management from beginning to end, and are clamorous for a change in its management. Ithaca charges all its misfortunes upon you, and I do not see but you must stand Godfather to them all, fix it as you will. We have a line of telegraph that ought to pay well - substantially built - well arranged, and yet running into debt every day, and becoming a reproach and bye word among...

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July 28, 1851. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell concerning finances and management of western lines. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: office operations, finances, offices in railroad depots (cooperation between the businesses), meeting of directors of the New-York & Erie Telegraph Association. Personal names: Tillotson, L.G.; Speed, J.J.; Woodruff, L.C. Geography: Elmira, N.Y.

Scope and Contents August 27, 1851. L.C. Woodruff to Ezra Cornell expressing support of leasing the New-York & Erie line to Ezra Cornell. September 6, 1851. Mckinney Irion to Ezra Cornell from Wolf River, Tennessee: "My neighbour Mr. McNeal has received some of your beautiful wheat and I am so pleased with it causes me to ask the kind favour of you to send me a small quantity?." September 16, 1851. Ezra Cornell to Amos Kendall: "My courage is fast failing. I have worked hard and incessently for the last...

Scope and Contents October 5, 1851. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell: "I think Faxton is trying to make an arrangement with the OR line to get their bus & give them half of his. As soon as he does so I will make a bargain with the House folks and give them & Bain our Eastern business this side of NY, and the NY bus until you get so you can do it?" October 6, 1851. J.J. Speed to Directors and Stockholders of New-York & Erie Telegraph Company reporting on telegraph lines and the business they are doing,...