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Box 17

 Container

Contains 13 Results:

Correspondence, 1855-09-12 - 1855-10-20

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents October 18, 1855. Mary Ann Cornell to Ezra Cornell: "I think you will recollect of giving me fifteen dollars before you left home. I have used it very prudently?and it is all gone but fifty cents." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, western lines, consolidation of lines; New York, Albany & Buffalo Electro Magnetic Telegraph Company; Erie & Michigan Telegraph Company. Personal names: Cornell, Alonzo B.; Cornell, Mary Ann Geography: Rochester,...
Dates: 1855-09-12 - 1855-10-20

Correspondence, 1855-10-22 - 1855-11-28

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

November 18, 1855. Mary Ann Cornell to Ezra Cornell: "I have never heard of so many suden deaths as I have this fall. It teaches us a powerful lesson on the uncertainty of human life." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, western lines, consolidation of lines Personal names: Beebe, Jeremiah S.; Cornell, Alonzo B.; Wells, Henry; Cornell, Mary Ann; Chace, Rebecca; Kendall, Amos Geography:

Dates: 1855-10-22 - 1855-11-28

Correspondence, 1855-12-01 - 1856-01-10

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents January 4, 1856. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann Cornell: "I reached here at 7:30, after the coldest night ride I ever recollect of having since stage coachs went out of fashion. I sat next to the stove all night, and my feet suffered with cold." Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, western lines, consolidation of lines; newly patented register, patent rights, transfer of lines; New York and Western Union Telegraph Company. Personal names: Sholes, C.C.;...
Dates: 1855-12-01 - 1856-01-10