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Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, materials and supplies, consolidation of lines, western lines.; New York and Erie Rail Road Personal names: Speed, J.J.; Wood, Benjamin; Haviland, J.; Wade, J.H.; Wood, Otis E. Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.

Scope and Contents December 27, 1852. Ezra Cornell's plan to bury telegraph cable. 1852. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell: "I am homesick, and can't write, I want to go home and stay there. I am sick of telegraphing, sick of business - sick of everything except my wife and I wish I could live with her, but I can't, I have got into the scrape and must stick to it manfully until I can work out." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, materials and supplies, consolidation of...

Scope and Contents January 6, 1853. Speed/Faxton contract. January 16, 1853. Ezra Cornell to J.J. Speed: "O'Reilly sent round to me yesterday to borrow $10, which I did not have?" Ithaca. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, materials and supplies, consolidation of lines, western lines, transfer of lines, patents and contracts; Telegraph Convention; New York and Erie Rail Road; New York and Western Union Telegraph Company. Personal names: Gordon, D.P.; Speed, J.J.;...

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Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, materials and supplies, consolidation of lines, transfer of lines, patents and contracts, western lines, New Orleans and Ohio Line. Personal names: O'Reilly, Henry; Speed, J.J.; Cornell, John H.; Gordon, D.P.; Delano, W.J.; Mann, Donald Geography: