Jane Lathrop Stanford Papers

San Francisco, Cal., March 3rd, 1905.

Pres. David Starr Jordan, Leland Stanford Jr. University, Stanford University, Cal.

My dear Dr. Jordan:

"The death of Mrs. Stanford is a sad shock to us all. I most fervently hope that investigation will prove that death was due to natural causes. I am most unwilling that your University shall be obliged to hand down through the ages the tradition of such an infamous and inhuman act. There has been so much nobleness, unselfishness and self-sacrifice connected with the planting and blossoming of the University that it grieves me deeply to feel that its history is to be marred by so dark a tragedy. I express to you and to the University my deep sympathy."

Yours sincerely,

F. H. Wheelan.