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San Francisco, January 24th 1885

No 211 Lausanne St.

Hon. Leland Stanford,

Dear Sir,

Learning through the daily newspaper that you have it in contemplation to establish an educational institution of the highest order, I beg leave to ask your attention to one matter connected with its general scope and plan, which if adopted and fully carried out, would vastly increase the practical benefit of such an institution, and would soon render it, in its direct usefulness to the country, the foremost institution in the United States, - not excepting, in my opinion, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, or any other of the leading colleges or universities in the country.

To state my suggestion at the outset; - it is, in its most general form, as follows: - that in your institution a Department should be establishing for giving full, complete, exhaustive instruction in everything which makes