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74 Montgomery Block [S.F.?]
June 15th 1889

Hon. W.W. [Moviow?]
San Francisco, Cala.
Dear Sir:- I write to ask you to make favorable mention of me to Senator Stanford. Already, I have made application for a post in the University, as Secretary, or as Librarian and Historiographer, or some similar position, and a reply was made me by Mr. [Nash?], that my application had been filed and would be attended to when the time for selection of officers came.
Now, you must forgive the trouble to which I am putting you, but the fact is that observation has led to the conclusion that to gain an object, one must persistently, and [try?] the best means: mere patient waiting is seldom of much avail.
And first of all, I would never have made application for the positions, unless I were capable of filling them well. My education and training have been of the best: my experience in teaching, both in Europe and the United States, has been [large?] and successful: I have the faculty of getting on with people, young and old: and some portion too of that larger wisdom which Bacon says is not to be gathered from books, has fallen to my share. Of my personal presentability, pardon the word, you can judge.
Whatever references are required, I can get, but the best reference seems to me to be the reputation for honesty, ability