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Rochester, N.Y., April 25, 1898.

Mrs. Leland Stanford,
Menlo Park, Palo Alto,
Cal.
My Dear Friend,-
Your letter containing the autograph of your dear husband came duly, and not only Mr. Stanford's but yours also will go into my book. The nicely typewritten copy of the entire fifty chapters, together with the preface, were snugly pecked in a box last Friday night and started on their way to the publisher, who says that it will take fully four months for me to see the end of the proff reading of the entire work, which as you see by the enclosed, is to be in two volumes of nearly 500 pages each, and yet, the most severe task of the whole year's work has been the cutting down of theincidents and the cutting out of every superfluous word in to condense the story. I do hope the contents will be of some good to somebody, for both Mrs. Harper and myself have given one of the best years of our lives to the gathering and compiling of the contents.
We have had two nice visits from San Francisco women this Spring -- Mrs. John F. Swift, the president of your State Suffrage Society and Mrs. Austin Sperry, its treasurer, and next week I am expecting Mrs. Sargent and her daughter, Doctor Elizabeth, who haev been spendig the last year in Europe. They are to be with us during the celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Women's Rights movement, which is to be held in this city April 28th and 29th. I hope the women in the different cities of California will celebrate this Fiftieth Anniversary. It will do us all good to speak a moment upon the progress that woman has made in every direction during the last fifty years.
Tell President Jordan it would be a nice thing for him to give the students a talk on this question, to make both the boys and girls see and realize the great advantages of to-day as compared with those of half a century ago. I hope the next time you come east, you will pass through Rochester and make me a nice visit. It would do you good just to stop a little while in our humble home.