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San Jose, Oct. 3. 1891

Mrs. Leland Stanford
Dear Madam

It has been my good fortune to be present today, at Palo Alto, and to witness a scene as grand in the results aimed at, and to be surely accomplished, as anything that has occurred in modern times.

As you stood there, beside your noble husband, while he, in fitting words outlined something of the policy of the great University now opened to the public, it made a picture more impressive than anything I have ever before witnessed.

The act of dedicating to public use an Institution so vast in its appointments, as well as in its scope and its promise, and having such a princely endowment, was an