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July 27, 1854. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell from Detroit concerning underground telegraph, family news and health, and instructions to Ellen on the care of the children in Ezra and Mary Ann's absence. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, pipelayer and underground telegraph, office operations; Ezra Cornell's ill health and treatment. Personal names: Cornell, Alonzo B.; Cornell, Mary Ann; Cobb, Emory Geography: Detroit; Ithaca, N.Y.; Logansport, In.; Indiana

Scope and Contents August 20, 1854. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann from Indianapolis reporting on his health and discussing the treatment received for his condition. August 27, 1854. Ezra Cornell, Mary Emily Cornell, Mary C. Robertson and M.B. Wood to Mary Ann Cornell from Albion sharing family news. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: office operations, finances, consolidation of companies, Ohio, Indiana & Illinois line. Personal names: Cornell, Mary Ann; Curtiss, George; Pew, W.P.; Robertson, Mary...

Scope and Contents September 2, 1854. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann from Detroit: "It is very sickly about Albion for such as have defective constitutions or shattered health, and many deaths have occurred?" Family news. September 3, 1854. Amos Kendall to Ezra Cornell reporting on telegraph business in New York and possible consolidation of lines. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: office operations, finances; Erie & Michigan Telegraph Company.; cholera Personal names: Cornell, Mary Ann; Kendall,...

Scope and Contents September 8, 1854. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann from Michigan City: "Speed and Wades effort at my distruction by their diabolical sale to the enemy has proved a signal failure on their part, and will produce them a harvest of curses from the verry men who were to reap the golden apple of their treachery." Ezra Cornell's health, telegraph business, and reflections upon his persevering and succeeding in the business despite Mary Ann's father's advice to pursue other things. Topics: Telegraph...

Scope and Contents September 22, 1854. E.B. Sadler to Ezra Cornell concerning F.O.J. Smith's claims. September 24, 1854. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann from Michigan City: "I wish you was here with me, I am not as well used when alone as when you are with me, I dont get as good a room, nor as clean a bed, I dont get called to my meals as early or by as pleasant a messenger, and at table I have to wate longer before being wated upon. All those ills are incident to being alone every one of which would banish before...

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October 6, 1854. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann from Chicago concerning family news from Michigan, telegraph business, and New York politics with reference to "fusion." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: office operations, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois line, finances, new western lines. Personal names: Cornell, Alonzo B.; Pew, W.P.; Cornell, Mary Ann; Tillotson, D.T.; Hopkins, P.A.; Faxton, Theodore Geography: Indiana; Ohio; Illinois

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October, 20, 1854. George Curtiss of the New York, Albany and Buffalo Telegraph Company to Ezra Cornell requesting that a meeting be held to discuss a permanent Western connection. Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: office operations, Ohio, Indiana & Illinois line, finances. Personal names: Curtiss, George; Speed, J.J.; Pew, W.P.; Cornell, D.B.; Cornell, Mary Ann; Cornell, Alonzo B.; Hopkins, P.A. Geography: Indiana; Ohio; Illinois

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Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: office operations, Erie & Michigan line, finances; Southern Michigan Telegraph Company Personal names: Pew, W.P.; Cornell, D.B.; Haviland, J.; Curtiss, George; Faxton, Theodore; Cornell, Alonzo B.; Caton, J.D. Geography: Utica; Indiana

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Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: office operations, finances, stock purchases. Personal names: Cornell, Alonzo B.; Cornell, D.B.; Skinner, G.W.; Curtiss, George Geography:

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Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: office operations, finances; House Company Personal names: Cobb, Emory; Wood, O.S.; Cornell, Alonzo B.; Cornell, D.B. Geography: Montreal; Ithaca, N.Y.