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TOPICS:
J.J. Speed discussing telegraph routes and business. Sketched map of telegraph routes on reverse.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: construction of lines, finances, materials and supplies, western lines, stock subscriptions.
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PLACES:
Vermont;
Troy;
Chicago.
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PEOPLE:
Tillotson, D.T.;
Speed, J.J.;
Pinkham, F.W.;
Beaumont, R.J.;
Morse, Samuel F.B.;
Cornell, E.B.;
Smith, F.O.J.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: construction of lines, finances, materials and supplies, western lines.
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PLACES:
Chicago;
Vermont.
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PEOPLE:
Speed, J.J.;
Robertson, Mary C.;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Cornell, E.B.;
Wood, Benjamin.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: technical matters, materials and supplies, western lines, Canadian lines;
British North American Electric Telegraph Association;
Erie & Michigan Telegraph Company.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
January 15, 1848. Alonzo B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell:
"I like the business exceedingly well and the more I have to do the more pleasant it is for me."
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PLACES:
Chicago;
Vermont;
Milwaukee.
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PEOPLE:
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Speed, J.J.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Vail, Alfred.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: technical matters, materials and supplies, western lines, Canadian lines;
British North American Electric Telegraph Association;
Erie & Michigan Telegraph Company.
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PLACES:
Chicago;
Vermont;
Milwaukee.
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PEOPLE:
Allen, Oliver E.;
Speed, J.J.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Wood, M.L.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: technical matters, materials and supplies, western lines, Canadian lines, rates;
Buffalo and Canada Junction Telegraph Company.
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PLACES:
Vermont;
Montreal;
Burlington, Vt.;
Troy;
Buffalo.
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PEOPLE:
Haviland, J.;
Wood, Phebe;
Cornell, E.B.;
Wood, M.B.;
Allen, W.D.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, construction of lines (in Vermont and the west), Canadian lines, disputes concerning western lines.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
February 2, 1848. B.B. French to Ezra Cornell from Washington:
"Receipts of our line last month about $6000! Give you dividend soon."
February 5, 1848. George Vail to Ezra Cornell concerning Morse Telegraph stocks and rights.
February 6, 1848. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell:
"I shall put you in the Montreal Office. I now think you are qualified to perform the duties promptly and with accuracy. It will be a very important station."
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PLACES:
Vermont;
Troy;
Milwaukee.
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PEOPLE:
French, B.B.;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Cornell, John H.;
Vail, George;
Smith, F.O.J.;
Cornell, E.B.;
Wood, Benjamin;
Haviland, J.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, construction of lines, western lines, rates, materials and supplies, stock subscriptions, disputes concerning western lines;
family cemetery.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
February 16, 1848. J. Haviland:
"I see that Mr. O.R. is pushing his line to Chicago and that Springfield has subscribed $8000!!! What do you think of that?
February 18, 1848. AA. Mann to Ezra Cornell:
"I learn that Col. Speed will not purchase the DeWitt farm at your place. I am therefore at liberty to received a proposal from you if you desire to purchase. The lowest price will be the sum as agreed to by Col. Speed, $6000."
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PLACES:
Dryden, N.Y.;
Ithaca;
Montreal;
Vermont;
Buffalo.
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PEOPLE:
Wood, Benjamin;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Wood, M.B.;
Griffin, Emily;
Curtis, N.T.;
Haviland, J.;
Speed, J.J.;
Mann, A.A.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, construction of lines, western lines, Canadian lines, patent rights, rates, dividends, materials and supplies;
draft of a contract between Speed, Ezra Cornell, and Smith.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
March 5, 1848. E.B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell:
"The Fredonians are much delighted with the idea of being connected with all Creation…Our room was literaly thronged with spectators all the afternoon yesterday beholding with astonishment the greatest wonder of the age."
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PLACES:
Montreal;
Vermont;
New York City.
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PEOPLE:
Cornell, E.B.;
Kendall, Amos;
Faxton, Theodore;
Smith, F.O.J.;
Benedict, G.W.;
Morse, Samuel F.B.;
Allen, W.D.;
Haviland, J.;
Bristol, John S.;
Speed, J.J.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, construction of lines, western lines, Canadian lines, materials and supplies, disputes concerning western lines and conflict with O'Reilly;
Erie & Michigan Telegraph Company.
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PLACES:
Erie;
Montreal;
Detroit;
Buffalo;
Michigan.
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PEOPLE:
Allen, W.D.;
Speed, J.J.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Wood, M.B.;
Griffin, David;
Cornell, E.B.;
O'Reilly, Henry;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Buell,W.C.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, construction of lines, western lines, materials and supplies, disputes concerning western lines and conflict with O'Reilly, stock subscriptions for a New York southern tier line, Canadian lines, New York & Erie Line;
British North American Electric Telegraph Association.
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PLACES:
Massachusetts;
Milwaukee.
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PEOPLE:
Cornell, E.B.;
Speed, J.J.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Allen, Oliver E.;
Wells, Henry.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, construction of lines, western lines, materials and supplies, stock subscriptions, disputes concerning western lines and conflict with O'Reilly, disputes concerning Canadian lines;
Montreal Telegraph Company;
British North American Electric Telegraph Association.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
April 18, 1848. Instructions for operating the Michigan lines.
April 29, 1848. Wire from H.B. Ely to E.B. Cornell:
"Three times now have the wires of the Line of the Buffalo and Erie come in contact with those of the Lake Erie Line so as to prevent ours working. I have therefore to request you immediately to remove your line wherever it runs either above or below ours."
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PLACES:
Montreal;
Vermont;
Troy;
Detroit;
Jefferson (Watkins Glen), N.Y.;
Havana (Montour Falls), N.Y.
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PEOPLE:
Speed, J.J.;
Haviland, J.;
Rice, H.F.;
Cornell, E.B.;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Howland, Charles W.;
Allen, W.D.;
Humphrey, William R.;
Kendall, Amos;
Hale, Henry;
Ely, H.B.;
Bent, George.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, construction of lines (Halifax to Boston), western lines, materials and supplies, disputes concerning Canadian lines;
British North American Electric Telegraph Association.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
May 9, 1848. Alonzo B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell:
"I do not care about staying here any longer than till there is a place for me some where in America, or at least out of Canada."
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PLACES:
Detroit;
Montreal;
Massachusetts;
Ohio;
Vermont.
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PEOPLE:
Cornell, E.B.;
Kendall, Amos;
Speed, J.J.;
Reed, Augustus;
Wells and Company;
Haviland, J.;
Cornell, Alonzo B.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, construction of lines, western lines, materials and supplies, stock subscriptions, Canadian lines.
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PLACES:
Massachusetts;
Detroit;
Ohio.
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PEOPLE:
Haviland, J.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
McFarland, John H.W.;
Beebe, Jeremiah S.;
Cornell, E.B.;
Allen, Oliver E.;
Dunham, J.;
Wood, M.B.;
Cobb, Emory.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, construction of lines, western lines, materials and supplies, stock subscriptions, Canadian lines;
"transcriptions of telegraph talk."
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PLACES:
Salem, N.Y.;
Aurora, N.Y.;
Milwaukee;
Illinois;
Ohio;
Connecticut.
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PEOPLE:
Morgan, E.G.;
Edwards, E.;
Wells, Henry;
Speed, J.J.;
Beebe, Jeremiah S.;
Jackson, Tower;
Cornell, E.B.;
Allen, Oliver E.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, construction of lines, disputes concerning western lines, materials and supplies, stock subscriptions, Canadian lines.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
June 6, 1848. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell from Detroit:
"Wilson is fighting the Pirates in good stile, but I much doubt his ability, or any one else, to get the Stock taken for us from Chicago to St. Louis. O'Reilly has a tribe of agents travelling all over the West, setting up meetings and talking to all who will listen to them in favor of their piratical schemes."
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PEOPLE:
Speed, J.J.;
Wilson, William Duane;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
McFarland, John H.W.;
Morgan, E.G.;
Humphrey, William R.;
Beebe, Jeremiah S.;
Cornell, E.B.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, western lines, materials and supplies, stock subscriptions, Canadian lines.
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PLACES:
Detroit;
Illinois;
Montreal.
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PEOPLE:
Speed, J.J.;
Curtis, N.T.;
Wood, O.S.;
Cutter, Isaac H.;
Wilson, William Duane;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Ely, Charles.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, stock subscriptions, disputes concerning western lines, materials and supplies, Canadian lines, New-York & Erie line;
Connecticut and Vermont Telegraph Company;
Erie & Michigan Telegraph Company.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
July 1, 1848. Statement of costs, Detroit to Buffalo.
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PLACES:
Massachusetts;
Jefferson (Watkins Glen), N.Y.;
Montreal.
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PEOPLE:
Speed, J.J.;
Kendall, Amos;
Smith, F.O.J.;
Wood, O.S.;
Allen, Oliver E.;
Griffin, David.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: construction of lines, western lines, stock subscriptions, materials and supplies, Canadian lines, Troy & Canada Junction line, finances;
New-York & Erie Telegraph Company;
Erie & Michigan Telegraph Company.
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PLACES:
Troy;
Vermont;
Montreal;
Quebec;
Buffalo.
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PEOPLE:
Cornell, E.B.;
Speed, J.J.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Allen, Oliver E.;
Cutter, Isaac H.;
Smith, F.O.J.;
Hale, Henry;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Livingston, Caroline.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, finances, construction of lines, western lines, Canadian lines, New-York & Erie line;
Erie & Michigan Telegraph Company.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
July 17, 1848. J. Dunham to Ezra Cornell:
"I am anxious to inform you of the happy change that has taken place on our line within a few days past. Since Alonzo came to Buffalo matters & things have assumed a very tone…His suggestions were concise but very comprehensive & just what was needed in our state of confusion."
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PLACES:
Buffalo;
Sandusky, Ohio;
Troy.
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PEOPLE:
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Speed, J.J.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Dunham, J.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, finances (Wells & Company), construction of lines, Troy & Canada Junction line, New-York & Erie line, Erie & Michigan line.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
July 22, 1848. Alonzo B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell from Buffalo:
"Allen received a letter from Mr. Speed this morning dated July 16th saying he had the wire all up…but thought it was broken in several places towards Detroit & he thought the wire would be ok by tonight…I will notify you instantly when the 'glorious connection' is made."
July 23, 1848. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell:
"I am glad to hear also that the editors begin to perceive an improvement in their reports, but I hope you will not be too much flattered with their puffs - the satisfaction of being right and doing right is ample reward for the little extra exertion required to accomplish so desirable an object, and those least worthy generally succeed in getting the most news paper glory - so that sensible men pay but little attention to such endorsements. Take such evidence & O'Reilly is the Lion in Telegraphing - a perfect Lightning King but take fact for evidence and he dwindles to the position of a perloiner of other peoples fame and property."
Also work and education.
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PLACES:
Buffalo;
Montreal;
Troy.
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PEOPLE:
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
St. John, T.O.;
Wood, O.S.;
O'Reilly, Henry.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, stock subscriptions, Connecticut & Vermont line (Bennington to Bridgeport), Erie & Michigan line, New-York & Erie line.
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PLACES:
Buffalo;
Ithaca.
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PEOPLE:
Kendall, Amos;
Allen, Oliver E.;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Cornell, E.B.;
Tillotson, D.T.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, Connecticut & Vermont line, New-York & Erie line, Troy & Whitehall line, Canadian lines;
Erie & Michigan Telegraph Company.
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PEOPLE:
Speed, J.J.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Cutter, Isaac H.;
Cornell, Alonzo B.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, Erie & Michigan line, New-York & Erie line.
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PEOPLE:
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Morgan, Grant;
Speed, J.J.;
Minor, Charles S.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Cornell, E.B.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: Troy & Whitehall line, Erie & Michigan line, materials and supplies.
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PLACES:
Buffalo.
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PEOPLE:
Speed, J.J.; Cornell, Alonzo B.; Morgan, E.G.; Tillotson, D.T.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, Erie & Michigan line, Canadian lines.
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PLACES:
Milwaukee;
Cleveland.
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PEOPLE:
Tillotson, D.T.;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Kendall, Amos;
Speed, J.J.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: stock subscriptions, New-York & Erie line, finances, materials and supplies, construction of lines, Connecticut & Vermont line.
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PEOPLE:
Cornell, E.B.;
French, B.B.;
Bristol, John S.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Cutter, Isaac H.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: Erie & Michigan line, finances, Connecticut & Vermont line, stock subscriptions, New-York & Erie line, Canadian lines, materials and supplies.
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PLACES:
Massachusetts;
Cleveland.
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PEOPLE:
Wood, M.B.;
Morry, Le Roy;
Allen, Oliver E.;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Wood, O.S.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Speed, J.J.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, materials and supplies, New-York & Erie line, Erie & Michigan line, construction of lines, Connecticut & Vermont line.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
September 20, 1848. Patent Office to Ezra Cornell:
"Your application for letters patent for an alleged improvement in insulating telegraphic wires has been examined and rejected for want of novelty."
September 26, 1848. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell:
"The arguement in the O'Reilly injunction suit is postponed until the 3rd Monday in Oct. to give time to learn the grounds of the Kentucky decision. I have just had a talk with Gov. Seward on the subject and he says the whole matter looks well."
September 30, 1848. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell:
"I have just learned that the Pirates have got their lease renewed for a month. They are certainly a hard animal to tree."
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PEOPLE:
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Bristol, John S.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Beebe, Jeremiah S.;
Allen, Oliver E.;
Speed, J.J.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, Canadian lines, finances, New-York & Erie line, Erie & Michigan line.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
October 8, 1848. Alonzo B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell from Cleveland:
"Business is rather dull just now owing to the depression of the produce market…"
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PLACES:
Montreal;
Quebec;
Cleveland.
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PEOPLE:
Wood, O.S.;
Cutter, Isaac H.;
Faxton, Theodore;
Bristol, John S.;
Whitney, H.H.;
Cornell, E.B.;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Norton, J.W.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, Connecticut & Vermont line, Erie & Michigan line, finances, construction of lines, Canadian lines, Troy & Whitehall line.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
October 11, 1848. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell:
"In politicks the Free soilers brag the most but I have the utmost confidence that Old Zach will carry the county of Tompkins & State of N.Y. and hope he will sweep the stakes in Ohio."
October 12, 1848. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell from Detroit:
"…I wanted their thousand dollars to silence some of the men who are bawling about their pay for poles & board bills; but I can fight them off as I have done. I hardly think they will cut our poles down, altho they threaten to do so, and I think they have actually cut the wire a number of times…"
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PEOPLE:
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Speed, J.J.;
Cornell, E.B.;
Bristol, John S.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, auxiliary lines, finances, Erie & Michigan line, stock subscriptions, New-York & Erie line, construction of lines, Canadian lines, O'Reilly conflict.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
October 24, 1848. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell:
"Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing."
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PLACES:
Detroit.
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PEOPLE:
Speed, J.J.;
Cutter, Isaac H.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Cornell, E.B.;
Bristol, John S.;
Wood, O.S.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: stock subscriptions, materials and supplies, Erie & Michigan line, Connecticut & Vermont line, finances.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
October 29, 1848. Alonzo B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell:
"I think during election we shall pretty nearly if not quite have our hands full to attend to election news and our regular business also…"
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PLACES:
Buffalo;
Cleveland.
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PEOPLE:
Speed, J.J.;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Cornell, John H.;
Smith, F.O.J.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, Connecticut & Vermont line, construction of lines, New-York & Erie line.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
November 5, 1848. E.B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell:
"I think it a pretty hard case that after a person earns money it is such hard work to get it. I don't want to complain but I feel as though I ought to have my pay just as promptly as any of the hands."
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PLACES:
Ithaca.
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PEOPLE:
Allen, Oliver E.;
Cornell, E.B.;
Bristol, John S.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: New-York & Erie line, materials and supplies, Erie & Michigan line, finances, Ithaca & Auburn line, Canadian lines.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
November 9, 1848. Letter from John H. Cornell to Ezra Cornell proposing that he carry on the pottery business in Ithaca.
November 10, 1848. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell from Cleveland:
"Allow me to congratulate you on two important events, first the election of old Zack, and second, but not less important, the fact that we have this day worked through for the first time from Detroit to Buffalo as well as we ever worked from here to Buffalo - the Erie & Michigan line is now complete with thirty poles to the mile and every cap on and works as beautifully as any line ever did…"
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PLACES:
Albion;
Detroit;
Cleveland;
Fredonia, N.Y.;
Newburgh, N.Y.
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PEOPLE:
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Cornell, John H.;
Faxton, Theodore;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Speed, J.J.;
Dunham, J.;
Cornell, E.B.;
Wood, O.S.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: New-York & Erie line, construction of lines, finances, materials and supplies, Speed's new caps, Canadian lines, Ithaca & Auburn line, Connecticut line, Erie & Michigan line.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
November 16, 1848. F.O.J. Smith to Ezra Cornell concerning insulators, telegraph conflicts, Henry O'Reilly, and Theodore Faxton.
November 23, 1848. J.J. Speed in Detroit to Ezra Cornell:
"The wolverines have been keeping Thanksgiving today and have consequently done but about half the usual amt. of business.
"I see that Judge Monroe of Kentucky has ordered the Marshall to cut down O'Reilly's poles - is not that a new remedy in law? I wish we had a Judge Monroe here."
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PLACES:
Detroit;
Chicago.
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PEOPLE:
Cornell, E.B.;
Cornell, John H.;
Bristol, John S.;
Allen, Oliver E.;
Smith, F.O.J.;
Dunham, J.;
Speed, J.J.;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Wood, O.S.;
Backus, A., Jr.;
Jackson, Tower.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, stock subscriptions, materials and supplies, New-York & Erie Telegraph Company.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
November 29, 1848. D.T. Tillotson to E.B. Cornell:
"The office at Jefferson was opened today, and the two Lakes kiss each other by 'Lightning'."
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PLACES:
Cleveland;
Ithaca;
Fredonia.
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PEOPLE:
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Speed, J.J.;
Smith, F.O.J.;
Wood, Phebe;
Risley, William;
Beebe, Jeremiah S.;
Tillotson, D.T.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, disputes concerning western lines.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
December 4, 1848. Samuel F.B. Morse to Ezra Cornell:
"You cannot complain that I have been hard with you, as surely I am not to blame for the unprincipled conduct of those pirates who are leaving no stone unturned to rob me in every way. Please send me the number of miles you and Speed have erected I wish it to oppose to O'Reilly's boast."
December 10, 1848. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell on the settlement of the O'Reilly controversy.
December 12, 1848. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell on the financial resolution of the O'Reilly controversy.
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PLACES:
Detroit;
Michigan;
Montreal.
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PEOPLE:
Allen, Oliver E.;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Speed, J.J.;
O'Reilly, Henry;
Smith, F.O.J.;
Cornell, E.B.;
Cornell, John H.;
Wood, M.B.;
Wood, O.S.;
Morse, Samuel F.B.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, disputes concerning western lines, finances, stock subscriptions, proposed lines, construction of lines.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
December 14, 1848. Horace Palmer to Alonzo B. Cornell concerning women, "theatres," and lost love.
December 18, 1848. Douglass Boardman to Ezra Cornell:
"The operator at Jefferson was directed by some one to teach no one the art of Telegraphic writing while at Jefferson. Believing this to be against the future interests of the Company I directed him to teach any one all he knew about it and no member of the Company would object."
December 20, 1848. J.H. McFarland to Ezra Cornell:
"The New York Albany and Buffalo Line refuse to send coms orginating on our line & addressed to points on that line unless we pay their tariff."
December 21, 1848. H.C. Gilbert to Ezra Cornell:
"The language of your letter of the 18th is really astonishing & unreasonable."
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PLACES:
Cleveland;
Ithaca;
Auburn, N.Y.;
Detroit.
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PEOPLE:
Tillotson, D.T.;
Palmer, Horace;
Bristol, John S.;
Speed, J.J.;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Boardman, Douglass;
MacFarland, J.H.;
Gilbert, H.C.;
Cornell, E.B.;
Wood, M.L.;
Wilson, William Duane;
Wood, Otis E.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, finances, western lines, stock subscriptions, conflict with O'Reilly's lines, patent rights.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
December 31, 1848. Alonzo B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell:
"I see the cholera is approaching the Lakes on every side, both east and south. It is now in Cincinnatti & all the way up the Miss. now."
December 31, 1848. Jane Cornell to Ezra Cornell:
"Ezra I believe you belong to the "Sons of Temperance" and if so I will inform you that there has been a society organized in Albion called "Daughters of Temperance" and that Phebe and I have joined and like it first rate."
January 2, 1849. Jane Cornell to Ezra Cornell:
"…I have nothing to dress in on that occasion, that is I have no dress that will answer to appear on the stage in. All the young ladies will appear in silk or merino and as I have nothing but a delaine that I have had above a year, I thought that I would write you the circumstances and trust to your generosity in helping me procure one."
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PLACES:
Cleveland;
Albion.
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PEOPLE:
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Cornell, Jane;
Allen, Oliver E.;
Speed, J.J.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, finances, western lines, conflict with O'Reilly's lines, stocks, patent rights;
cholera.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
January 17, 1849. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell:
"We must have a line from St. Louis to Fort Independence, and ultimately to the great Commercial Emporium on the Pacific, at the bay of San Francisco. If the 'gold diggins' are what they are cracked up to be, there will be a city at San Francisco of more than one hundred thousand inhabitants in less than ten years, Whitneys RRoad will be built and the telegraph along side of it."
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PLACES:
Detroit;
Cleveland.
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PEOPLE:
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Speed, J.J.;
O'Reilly, Henry;
Tillotson, D.T.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, finances, western lines, proposed line (Cuba), disputes concerning western lines, O'Reilly's proposed lines;
cholera;
gold fever.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
January 27, 1849. Alonzo B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell:
"The people are not, in this part of the country, a quarter so much excited about the Cholera as the Gold fever."
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PLACES:
Detroit;
Cleveland.
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PEOPLE:
Cornell, E.B.;
Wood, O.S.;
O'Reilly, Henry;
Speed, J.J.;
Bristol, John S.;
Hoyt, Byron B.;
Nutter, J.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Cornell, Alonzo B.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, finances, new lines, patent rights, western lines, Connecticut & Vermont line;
gold fever.
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PLACES:
Massachusetts;
New York City;
Detroit;
Montreal.
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PEOPLE:
Bristol, John S.;
Bulkley, Charles S.;
Beebe, Jeremiah S.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Speed, J.J.;
Smith, F.O.J.;
Wood, O.S.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, finances, western lines, conflict with O'Reilly's lines, new lines, stocks.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
March 10, 15, and 17, 1849. J.J. Speed's experiments and speculations concerning telegraph science.
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PLACES:
Detroit;
New York City;
Ithaca;
Fredonia.
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PEOPLE:
Bristol, John S.;
Smith, F.O.J.;
Briggs, Amos;
Speed, J.J.;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Dunham, J.;
Cobb, Emory.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, finances, western lines.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
March 28, 1849. J.J. Speed on telegraph technology and Morse's patent.
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PLACES:
Fredonia;
Detroit.
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PEOPLE:
Tillotson, D.T.;
Speed, J.J.;
Park, J.D.;
Cornell, Jane;
Pew, W.P.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, finances, western lines, conflict with O'Reilly's lines, Erie & Michigan line.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
April 13, 1849. J.J. Speed's experiments and speculations concerning telegraph science.
April 15, 1849. Jane Cornell to Ezra Cornell:
"Mary has left of doctoring with a Botanic Doctor, and is taking Myres Sarsaparilla Dandelion & Wild-cherry extract…"
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PLACES:
Detroit.
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PEOPLE:
Speed, J.J.;
Cornell, Jane;
Briggs, Amos;
Cornell, E.S.;
Cornell, John H.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, finances, western lines, conflict with O'Reilly's lines, new lines.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
April 23, 1849. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell:
"O'Reilly now refuses to take coms from us to go South from any place where they have an office. Shall we refuse to take coms from them going West? If anything is left to my discretion I give you notice now, that my propensities are decidedly for war."
Also, April 23, 27, 28, 30, 1849: J.J. Speed's speculations concerning telegraph science.
April 29, 1849. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell on temperance.
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PEOPLE:
McFarland, J.H.;
Wood, O.S.;
Speed, J.J.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, finances, western lines, rates, conflict with O'Reilly's lines, Canadian lines.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
May 6, 1849. J.J. Speed's speculations concerning telegraph science.
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PEOPLE:
Speed, J.J.;
Beebe, Jeremiah S.;
Hicks, Charles C.;
Allen, Oliver E.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, western lines, stock subscriptions, conflict with O'Reilly's lines, Canadian lines.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
May 19, 1849. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell:
"…our operators here had been supoened to give evidence in relation to private business sent over the line."
May 28, 1849. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell:
"…as I have got Fall Creek, I shall have to stay at home and attend to it, and you will have to become Captain General of the lightning."
June 6, 1849. Ezra Cornell to D.T. Tillotson:
"…after talking with O'Reilly a short time, Mann said he became convinced that they wished him to engage in a swindling operation to fleece his neighbours & friends…"
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PLACES:
Milwaukee;
Ithaca;
Indiana;
Ohio.
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PEOPLE:
Speed, J.J.;
Jackson, Tower;
Lee, John J.S.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, finances, stock subscriptions, western lines, conflict with O'Reilly's lines.
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PLACES:
Connecticut;
Ohio.
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PEOPLE:
Speed, J.J.;
Beebe, Jeremiah S.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, stock subscriptions, Cleveland & Cincinnati line, New-York & Erie line, St. Louis line, O'Reilly conflict, finances;
Ithaca & Auburn Telegraph Company.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
June 30, 1849. Samuel F.B. Morse to Ezra Cornell:
"If you have suffered from the outrageous rascalities of the O'Reilly pirates in any degree, I have suffered tenfold more, but there will soon be an end of their machinations if there is any force in law or justice."
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PLACES:
Cleveland;
Milan, Ohio;
Ithaca.
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PEOPLE:
Wade, J.H.;
Speed, J.J.;
Allen, Oliver E.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Spencer, D.D.;
Bristol, John S.;
Morse, Samuel F.B.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: Connecticut & Vermont line, proposed lines, stock subscriptions, materials and supplies, new western lines;
Ithaca & Auburn Telegraph Company.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
July 4, 1849. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell:
"…Ithaca has a plank road from Hotel to Inlet, one mile, great for Tompkins Company — a dozen has been planed — but have all evaporated in a few set speaches at public meetings — but our Ithaca plank road makes a fine track for the 4th of Julyers to try their nags on."
Also Ezra Cornell's experiments with line connections.
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PLACES:
Ithaca;
Detroit.
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PEOPLE:
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Bristol, John S.;
Faxton, Theodore;
McGowan, S.W.;
Speed, J.J.;
Hotchkiss, S.W.;
Beebe, Jeremiah S.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, stock subscriptions, materials and supplies, new lines.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
July 13, 1849. J.J. Speed in Detroit to Ezra Cornell:
"You have warned me in the past to avoid experiments: but I am making one more. I have got a Mrs. Sheldon to take the office at Jackson and am going to get your sister Mrs. Wood to take the Albion office: both are abundantly qualified to do the business better than any boy, or man, that we can afford to pay in those places. If the ex works as well as I have every confidence to believe it will, I will put a woman in the offices at Ann Arbor, Marshall, & Battle Creek…."
July 15, 1849. Alonzo B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell explaining the working of a telegraph line.
July 20, 1849. S.W. McGowan to Ezra Cornell discussing possible new lines in northern New York and difficulties in selling subscriptions.
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PLACES:
Detroit;
Cleveland;
Ithaca.
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PEOPLE:
Speed, J.J.;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Wood, M.L.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Faxton, Theodore;
Bristol, John S.;
McGowan, S.W.;
Jackson, Tower.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, new lines in Ithaca area (Waterloo, Seneca Falls, Aurora), reconstruction of Ithaca & Elmira line, stock subscriptions, finances.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
July 29, 1849. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell concerning travel between New York and Ithaca, telegraph line operations, Ithaca & Owego railroad, Sodus Canal, and purchase of Fall Creek property:
"I think after this year I shall give up the Telegraph business to you and Col. Speed and I will turn my attention to the improvement of the property."
August 6, 1849. J.J. Speed in Detroit describing the effect of the cholera epidemic in the west (mid-west), progress on the Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Cincinnati lines, and finances.
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PLACES:
Ithaca;
Detroit.
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PEOPLE:
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Speed, J.J.;
Kendall, Amos;
Beebe, Jeremiah S.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Jackson, Tower.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: Ithaca & Elmira line, New-York & Erie line, Connecticut & Vermont line, stock subscriptions, materials and supplies, finances.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
August 21, 1849. J. H. Wade in Milan to Ezra Cornell reporting on the progress of the Cleveland & Cincinnati line, and the effect of cholera in the region.
August 21, 1849. S.W. Hotchkiss in Galena to Ezra Cornell reporting on progress of new lines in Illinois and Wisconsin and the O'Reilly conflict.
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PLACES:
Ithaca;
Cleveland;
Galena, Ill.
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PEOPLE:
Bush, I.L.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Lewis, A.S.;
Wade, J.H.;
Hotchkiss, S.W.;
Speed, J.J.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, Connecticut & Vermont line, finances, Ithaca & Elmira line, Albany & Newburgh line.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
August 25, 1849. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell:
"You have a young brother here about 3 days old. He is a fine fellow and will soon want a situation in a Telegraph office."
September 8, 1849. Theodore S. Faxton to Ezra Cornell concerning settlement of Ezra Cornell's accounts with the New York, Albany & Buffalo Telegraph Company.
September 10, 1849. S.W. Hotchkiss to Ezra Cornell from Sheboygan concerning new lines under construction in the west, competition from O'Reilly, and the effects of the cholera epidemic.
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PLACES:
Ithaca;
Connecticut;
Buffalo.
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PEOPLE:
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Smith, F.O.J.;
Bush, I.L.;
Lewis, A.S.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Dewey, Theodore;
Speed, J.J.;
Faxton, Theodore;
Hotchkiss, S.W.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, New-York & Erie line, finances, Connecticut & Vermont line.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
September 17, 1849. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell, diagrams and description of new "switch" he had developed which would allow transmitting of messages over long distances without rewriting (connecting circuits). 2nd letter, same date, concerns progress on new western lines (Cleveland & Cincinnati, St. Louis).
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PLACES:
Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
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PEOPLE:
Speed, J.J.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Boardman, Douglass;
Allen, T.F.;
French, B.B.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, new western lines (Zanesville, St. Louis), finances;
Connecticut & Vermont Telegraph Company;
railroad convention in St. Louis.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
September 20, 1849. Beach Brothers to Ezra Cornell inquiring as to arrangements for transmission of news messages for The New York Sun over the New-York & Erie and the Erie & Michigan lines. (Letter of October 1, 1849 indicates this idea has been abandoned by the Beach Brothers)
September 20, 1849. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell concerning prospects looking good for new western lines, O'Reilly conflict, and connecting circuits.
September 23, 1849. Phebe Wood to Ezra Cornell:
"I think that I shall like tellegraphing if I have good instruments. I wish you would come and see us. I could now appreciate some instructions in regard to electricity."
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PLACES:
New York City.
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PEOPLE:
Speed, J.J.;
Wood, Phebe;
Smith, F.O.J.;
Beebe, Jeremiah S.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Wade, J.H.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, New-York & Erie line, Cleveland & Cincinnati line, office operations.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
October 1849. George B. Prescott's answer to the bill of complaint by Ezra Cornell.
October 7, 1849. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell, regarding Speed's new circuit connector:
"You say work the telegraph as it is, and not allow myself to chase Jack-O-Lanterns. I answer yes, if I cannot make the public believe that my Jack-O-Lantern is a real bonafide lighthouse - and induce them to pay me their money to help build it."
October 9, 1849. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell reprimanding him for closing his telegraph office early on an election night:
"This will not do and if it cant be reformed we will have some turnouts."
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PLACES:
Cleveland.
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PEOPLE:
Speed, J.J.;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Benedict, E.D.;
Wade, J.H.;
Beebe, Jeremiah S.;
Wheeler, M.;
Allen, T.F.;
Jackson, Tower.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: Cleveland & Cincinnati line, finances, materials and supplies (brimstone insulators), Wisconsin lines, New-York & Erie line.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
October 20, 1849. D.T. Tillotson to Ezra Cornell reporting on survey of Chenango Valley. October 20, 1849. E.D Benedict to operators connected with Cleveland and Pittsburgh line detailing a
"system of doing business in regular order, and promptly, at the same time giving each and every office a fair and equal chance."
October 27, 1849. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell describing continued experiments with his switch.
October 29, 1849. Ezra Cornell to D.T. Tillotson discussing Ithaca area lines (Waterloo and Elmira), operations of House line and Bain telegraph lines in the east, and the business of the New-York & Erie line.
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PLACES:
Ithaca;
Zanesville, Ohio;
Milwaukee;
New York City.
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PEOPLE:
Tillotson, D.T.;
Benedict, E.D.;
Speed, J.J.;
Hotchkiss, S.W. ;
Smith, F.O.J.;
Jackson, G.J.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, Erie & Michigan line, Cleveland & Cincinnati line;
Ohio lines;
death of Elizabeth Cornell.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
November 4, 1849. E.B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell discussing the potential of the Cincinnati, Wheeling, & Pittsburgh line and his view of Speed's switch as an important improvement in telegraph operations.
November 15, 1849. Letters of condolence from H.C. Buell and W.W. Marks to Alonzo B. Cornell on the death of his sister Elizabeth.
November 24, 1849. Phebe Wood to Ezra Cornell, expressing sympathy on Elizabeth's death and discussing the success of women telegraph operators:
"John writes me that Jane intends going to learn the tailors trade but I think she would do better to learn to telegraph. I hear that they employ ladies in ops east."
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PLACES:
Ithaca;
Cleveland;
Albion.
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PEOPLE:
Jackson, G.J.;
Beebe, Jeremiah S.;
Cornell, E.B.;
Speed, J.J.;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Bristol, John S.;
Cornell, Elizabeth;
Wood, Phebe.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, materials and supplies, office operations, New-York & Erie line, stock subscriptions.
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PEOPLE:
Tillotson, D.T.;
Cornell, E.B.;
Chace, Thomas;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Speed, J.J.;
Wade, J.H.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, new lines (Ohio, Wheeling to New Philadelphia), Zanesville line, office operations, materials and supplies.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
December 18, 1849. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell discussing finances, results of his work in Ohio, and future plans for lines to the west.
December 22, 1849. Ezra Cornell to Board of Directors of Hudson River Railroad Company proposing a reciprocal arrangement for the right to erect poles along the railroad line from New York to Poughkeepsie and for free passage of his men in return for telegraph services for railroad business.
December 25, 1849. Ezra Cornell to Mary Ann and children, from Peekskill:
"I wish you all a Merry Christmas, a Merry, Merry Christmas, and I hope old Santa Claus wont be so verry busy as to pass by…without even droping in to catch a glance of those bewitching merry eyes, of my darling Mary or the cherub smiles of my baby Boy…."
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PEOPLE:
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Speed, J.J.;
O'Reilly, Henry;
Haviland, J.;
Dunham, J.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: stock subscriptions, finances, Zanesville line, Zanesville & Wheeling-Pittsburgh line, Ithaca area lines (Auburn, Palmyra);
New-York & Erie Telegraph Association.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
January 5, 1850. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell:
"We miss our dear Elizabeth verry much from our family circle our recollections of her innocent mirth, and cheerful good nature with hopes for her eternal happiness is our only consolation - and her sudden departure should admonish us all to be ready for a like event, and may we all in the end meet her in happiness."
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PLACES:
Cleveland;
Ithaca.
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PEOPLE:
Speed, J.J.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Jackson, Tower;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Boardman, Douglass;
Eddy, J.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: stock subscriptions, office operations, finances, materials and supplies;
New York & Erie Telegraph Association.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
January 28, 1850. T.W. Hotchkiss to Ezra Cornell from Milwaukee concerning finances, progress on Wisconsin lines, and the pirates.
January 29, 1850. T. F. Allen to Ezra Cornell giving account of his attempts to raise subscriptions for a line from Towanda to Owego.
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PLACES:
Cleveland;
Milwaukee.
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PEOPLE:
Wood, M.L.;
Brown, Charles L.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Luther, G.;
Morrell, John J.;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Hotchkiss, S.W.;
Smith, F.O.J.;
Wood, O.S.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, stock subscriptions;
New-York & Erie Telegraph Association.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
February 25 and 29, 1850. Proposition by Ezra Cornell to New York and Erie Railroad Company.
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PLACES:
Cleveland;
Peekskill, N.Y.
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PEOPLE:
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Wade, J.H.;
Northrop, C.C.;
Tillotson, D.T.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, patent rights, stocks, finances;
New-York & Erie Telegraph Association.
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PLACES:
Ohio;
New York City;
Ithaca.
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PEOPLE:
Mowrey, LeRoy;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Cornell, E.B.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, patent disputes, stocks, finances;
Magnetic Telegraph Company.
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PLACES:
New York City.
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PEOPLE:
Smith, F.O.J.;
Speed, J.J.;
Morse, Samuel F.B.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, patent disputes, stocks, finances.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
April 20, 1850. Alonzo B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell:
"I am very sorry to hear that you are so strained in your money matters. Though it is not very much to be wondered at considering from whence you expect money."
April 1850. Letters from Speed describing possible improvements to telegraph technology, and a method of preventing steam boilers from exploding.
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PLACES:
Detroit;
Ithaca.
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PEOPLE:
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Speed, J.J.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, finances.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
May 18, 1850. Statement describing the operations of the New York telegraph station, including transcriptions of messages and comment on illicit use of the line.
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PLACES:
New York City.
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PEOPLE:
Speed, J.J.;
Wood, M.L.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, finances, New York City operations, Erie & Michigan line.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
May 27, 1850. Letter from Speed describing possible improvements to telegraph technology.
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PLACES:
Ithaca;
New York City;
Fredonia.
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PEOPLE:
Tyler, A.L.;
Robinson, Charles B.;
Speed, J.J.;
Beebe, Jeremiah S.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: materials and supplies, finances, New York City operations, stocks.
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PLACES:
New York City.
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PEOPLE:
Robinson, Charles B.;
Kendall, Amos;
Smith, F.O.J.;
Bagley, B.;
Speed, J.J.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, disputes concerning western lines.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
July 17, 1850. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell:
"If the experience of the past is any criterion for the future, the grim specter poverty will always stand staring me in the face. At all events I have to meet his ugly visage daily…"
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PLACES:
Detroit;
New York City.
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PEOPLE:
Speed, J.J.;
Robinson, Charles B.;
Faxton, Theodore;
Beebe, Jeremiah S.;
Ely, Charles.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, materials and supplies, stock subscriptions;
Ithaca real estate.
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PLACES:
Ithaca;
New York City.
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PEOPLE:
Munn, W.H.;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Beebe, Jeremiah S.;
Speed, J.J.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, materials and supplies, disputes concerning western lines, difficulties and breakdowns of lines, rates;
New-York & Erie Telegraph Company;
wheat.
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PEOPLE:
Ely, Charles;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Hotchkiss, S.W.;
Speed, J.J.;
Vail, Hector;
Tillotson, D.T.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, materials and supplies.
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PEOPLE:
Speed, J.J.;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Robinson, Charles B.;
Wood, M.B.;
Vail, Hector;
Tillotson, D.T.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, materials and supplies.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
October 2, 1850. Miscellaneous telegraph transcriptions, including account of Utah Indians/Snake Indians battle.
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PLACES:
Connecticut.
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PEOPLE:
Speed, J.J.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, materials and supplies.
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PLACES:
New York City;
Newburgh.
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PEOPLE:
Robinson, Charles B.;
Tillotson, D.T.;
Ingersoll, Charles M.;
Speed, J.J.;
Smith, F.O.J.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, materials and supplies.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
November 30, 1850. J.J. Speed to Ezra Cornell:
"I have generally looked on the bright side of the picture, and believed the good time was coming; but since you was here, I have been more discouraged than I have ever been before. The debts unpaid at F, and the bitter curses heaped upon the Telegraph…"
December 5, 1850. Jeremiah S. Beebe to Ezra Cornell:
"The constant habit of smoking in the office keeps me sick at the stomach, and has frequently driven me to the street. It is much more like a bar room of a small tavern than a place of business."
December 5, 1850. Charles Robinson to Ezra Cornell:
"I understand (Mr. Beebe) has written you about the office being like a bar room - I deny this. I should not, were it not through respect to you, allow Mr. Beebe in the office as he is often under the influence of liquor…"
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PLACES:
Newburgh;
New York City.
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PEOPLE:
Speed, J.J.;
Ingersoll, Charles M.;
Beebe, Jeremiah S.;
Robinson, Charles B.;
Ely, Charles;
Dunham, J.
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TOPICS:
Telegraph business correspondence: finances, materials and supplies.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
December 9, 1850. J.J. Speed to Stephen Munn:
"The Telegraph controversy between the Morse Patenters and others has been postponed from time to time or decided against the Morse Patents…"
December 24, 1850. O.S. Wood to Ezra Cornell on Ithacaland, the DeWitt Farm, and the family.
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PLACES:
Detroit;
Newburgh;
Ithaca;
Montreal.
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PEOPLE:
Speed, J.J.;
Ingersoll, Charles M.;
Minot, Charles;
Cornell, Alonzo B.;
Bristol, John S.;
Beebe, Jeremiah S.;
Wood, O.S.
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