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Introduction letter to Senator L. Stanford, from H. I. Thornton, Esq., December 1st., 1885.

San Francisco, December 1st., 1885.

Hon. Leland Stanford, U.S. Senate,

Dear Sir:-

I have known for several years past in this city Dr. Max Axelrood. He has been engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery while here. He is a gentleman of good character and of cultivated talents, and has been entertained at the homes of respectable people and associates with them as their equals.

He is a Russian by birth and is thirty-six years of age. He speaks and writes the German, French, Polish and English languages as well as his own. He was educated at the Universities of Heidelberg in Germany, and at the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia. He served as surgeon in the Prussian army in the Franco-Prussian war and in the Russian army in the Russian-Turkish war.

He is a gentleman of industry and prudent habits and of active intellect, and is well versed in current history and affairs. As a student and a resident of this state, he has taken a deep interest in your magnificent gift to the people and coming generation, and is anxious to be employed by you as one of the commissioners to examine and report under the institutions of learning in the old world to the end that the most useful elements in them tried and established systems may be fairly submitted to your judgment.

I think that he would be valuable for you in that capacity and I would commend him to your consideration.

I remain, Yours Most Truly,

Harry I. Thornton.