Scope and Contents April 7, 1852. Transcripts of letters from Ezra Cornell to J.J. Speed: "I was never so poor in my life as now, I am barely able to supply the necessaries of life. This position weighs heavily on my spirits, and I must get relief soon or it will drive me crazy. I have not contributed a dollar to the support of my family in two years, they suffer for the ordinary comforts of life. Smith and Kendall are both as heartless as adamant and as selfish as the devel." April 27: "My clothes are getting...

Scope and Contents April 27, 1852. Ezra Cornell to J.J. Speed: "I regard Smith's treatment towards us, in giving O'Reilly the control of the territory in question, as the most shabby character?" April 27, 1852. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell including comment on the company and speculations on telegraph science. April 30, 1852. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell: "I can disern a streak of light, the clouds of adversity appear to be braking, and the sunshine of hope glimmers through the fractured darkness." May 4,...

Scope and Contents May, 1852. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell on "facsimile telegraph." May 25, 1852. Ezra Cornell to J.J. Speed: "I arrived in N.Y. to day found your letter with facsimilie message, and it was not so bad a specimen?. Don't get excited, and don't neglect the E & M Line, keep that agoing?" Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, materials and supplies, new lines in the South, transfer of lines, patents and contracts; telegraph patent trial in New York Superior...

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June 14, 1852. List of lines of the New-York & Erie Telegraph Company, cities and miles. June 1852. J.J. Speed's experiments and speculations concerning telegraph science. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, materials and supplies, new lines, transfer of lines, patents and contracts. Personal names: Speed, J.J.; Wood, Benjamin Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.; New York City

Scope and Contents June, July 1852. J.J. Speed's experiments and speculations concerning telegraph science. June 27, 1852. reflecting on years of marriage. July 4, 1852. Ezra Cornell to Jeremiah S. Beebe pleading that he refrain from drinking to avoid losing his employment: "Total abstinance is the only rallying cry under which victory is sure." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, materials and supplies, transfer of lines, patents and contracts; New York and Western Union...

Scope and Contents July 10, 1852. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell: "Wood has just come in and I read him your letter. He says you can crawl through a small hole with a whole skin than any other live man." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, materials and supplies, transfer of lines, consolidation of lines; New York and Western Union Telegraph Company. Personal names: Beebe, Jeremiah S.; Beebe, Sarah P.T.; Speed, J.J.; Wade, J.H.; Cobb, Emory Geography: New York City;...

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Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, materials and supplies, patents, western lines, transfer of lines, consolidation of lines; New York and Western Union Telegraph Company.; cholera; New York and Erie Railroad Company Personal names: Speed, J.J.; O'Reilly, Henry; Faxton, Theodore; Beebe, Jeremiah S.; Haviland, J.; Bristol, John S.; Gordon, D.P.; Loder, Benjamin. Geography: Chicago; St. Louis; Ithaca, N.Y.

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Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, materials and supplies, patents, western lines, transfer of lines, consolidation of lines; New York and Western Union Telegraph Company. Personal names: Speed, J.J. Geography:

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September 3, 1852. Speed's experiments and speculations concerning telegraph science. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, materials and supplies, patents, consolidation of lines, western lines; cholera Personal names: Hopkins, P.A.; Skinner, G.W. Geography:

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October 15, 1852. Ezra Cornell to J.H. Wade: "If I could have my choice, I should prefer that my name should be immortalized by its connection with some good deed, by alleviating the sufferings of humanity." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, materials and supplies, consolidation of lines, western lines. Personal names: Smith, F.O.J.; Wade, J.H.; Speed, J.J. Geography: