Becker-Hull Ezra Cornell and telegraph materials, 1844-1933.
Collection Number: 1-1-262
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Becker-Hull Ezra Cornell and telegraph materials, 1844-1933.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
1-1-262
Abstract:
Notes, letters, documents, and pamphlets relating to Ezra Cornell and to the telegraph,
including letters from Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell, the Ithaca Journal, Andrew
Dickson White, and T.G. Alvord; letters from Ezra Cornell to J.J. Speed and F.O.J.
Smith; letters between Ezra Cornell and William A. Woodward; extracts from Ezra Cornell's
private journal; Charles H. Hull's notes on Ezra Cornell; excerpts from letters received
by Andrew Dickson White in the first few years of his presidency of Cornell University
(1868-1872); a chronology of Ezra Cornell's activities from 1844-1858, compiled by
Carl Becker; and pamphlets concerning the telegraph. The journal extracts and most
of the letters are in the form of typewritten transcripts. Also included is volume
1 of The Telegrapher, a periodical published by the National Telegraphic Union (incomplete:
lacks issues 6 and 10); and a volume of printed depositions in the lawsuit of Samuel
F.B. Morse et al. against Francis O.J. Smith.
Creator:
Hull, Charles Henry, 1864-1936.
Becker, Carl L. (Carl Lotus), 1873-1945.
Cornell, Alonzo B., 1832-1904.
White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918.
Alvord, Thomas Gold, 1810-1897.
Speed, John J. (John James)
Smith, Francis O. J. (Francis Ormond Jonathan), 1806-1876.
Woodward, William A.
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872.
Quanitities:
.8 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Charles Henry Hull and Carl Becker were both professors of history at Cornell University.
Ezra Cornell played an important role in the development of the telegraph, and later
founded Cornell University.
Notes, letters, documents, and pamphlets relating to Ezra Cornell and to the telegraph,
including letters from Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell, the Ithaca Journal, Andrew
Dickson White, and T.G. Alvord; letters from Ezra Cornell to J.J. Speed and F.O.J.
Smith; letters between Ezra Cornell and William A. Woodward; extracts from Ezra Cornell's
private journal; Charles H. Hull's notes on Ezra Cornell; excerpts from letters received
by Andrew Dickson White in the first few years of his presidency of Cornell University
(1868-1872); a chronology of Ezra Cornell's activities from 1844-1858, compiled by
Carl Becker; and pamphlets concerning the telegraph. The journal extracts and most
of the letters are in the form of typewritten transcripts. Also included is volume
1 of The Telegrapher, a periodical published by the National Telegraphic Union (incomplete:
lacks issues 6 and 10); and a volume of printed depositions in the lawsuit of Samuel
F.B. Morse et al. against Francis O.J. Smith.
Documents from the Maine Historical Society may not be quoted or reproduced without
permission of the holder of the originals.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Becker-Hull Ezra Cornell and telegraph materials, #1-1-262. Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Cornell, Ezra, 1807-1874.
Cornell University
Subjects:
Telegraph.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Ezra Cornell's speeches, printed
Item number |
1863-02-12-1864-03-14 |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Ezra Cornell's applications for patents, copies
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1844-1845 |
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Typescript copies of Ezra Cornell letters
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Scope and Contents
Recipients include Alonzo Cornell, Mary Ann Cornell, Eunice Cornell, Ithaca Journal,
Jane L. Handy, Andrew D. White, TG Alvond
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Typescript extracts from Ezra Cornell's journal
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1845-1869 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Photostat copies of letters
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1844-1854 |
Scope and Contents
Includes Ezra Cornell, A. Kendall, S. B. Morse, F.O.J. Smith, J.J. Speed Jr. From
the Smith papers, Maine Historical Society.
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Charles Hull's notes on Ezra Cornell
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Undated |
Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Charles Hull's notes on Ezra Cornell
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Undated |
Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Carl Becker's Chronology of Ezra Cornell, 1844-1858
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Undated |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Charles Hull's correspondence regarding Ezra Cornell material
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1907-1933 |
Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Interview of Otis S. Wood (Ezra Cornell's brother-in-law) by Charles Hull
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1907 |
Box 1 | Folder 10-12 |
Telegraph pamphlets
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1845-1930 |
Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Ezra Cornell Telegraph Notice
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1854-06-22 |
Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Tariff of Charges for Ithaca, New York, and Erie telegraph lines
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Undated |
Box 1 | Folder 15 |
William Bartlett manuscript, article, and letter
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1927 |
Box 1 | Folder 16-17 |
Excerpts from letters received by AD White
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1868-1872 |
Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Cornell University resolutions before the Board of Trustees
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1868-1874 |
Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Woodward vs. Cornell copies
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1865 |
Box 1 | Folder 20-21 |
Woodward vs. Cornell copies
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1866 |
Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Woodward vs. Cornell copies
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1867 |
Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Woodward vs. Cornell copies
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1868 |
Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Woodward vs. Cornell copies
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1869 |
Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Woodward vs. Cornell copies
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1870-1873 |
Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Copy of "The Pony Express"
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1944-05 |
Box 1 |
Morse vs. Smith, bound (2 copies)
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1852 | |
Box 1 |
Telegrapher I
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1864-09-26-1865-11-15 |