Correspondence (incoming): Alla - An, 1893-1896

call to see you. Now you will remember your promise and be sure to see Frank at the University, if only, to please me and for old friendship's sake. You will like him and it is unnecessary for me to say, how delighted he will be to meet you.

Judge Allyn sends very kindest remembrances. Hoping to see you in the "near" future, with a great deal of love for your dear self,

Believe me always Your Sincere and old Friend Nellie L. Allyn

The Tacoma Tacoma Wash

same as pages 28 and 29

Lake Forest, Illinois March 2nd 1896

Dear Madam

I rejoice today with unnumbered thousands whom you do not know and who have no direct interest in California, in the decision of the Supreme Court in the Central Pacific Railway matter.

Although having never had the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with your honored husband, I have known of him (independent of his and your munificent gifts to Stanford University) as one of the best rich men

this country has ever had, and rejoice that the dastardly attempt to destroy his well-served reputation and to impoverish you have come to naught.

You will both live in the hearts of our people everywhere, hearts that were touched by that great sorrow of yours out of which came such a noble example to people of great wealth.

Yours very truly James G. Anderson

Mrs. Leland Stanford Palo Alto, California

Palo Alto 17 January 1893

Dear Mrs Stanford:

Your very kind letter of sympathy and enquiry to Mrs Anderson is much appreciated by both of us. In answer, I am happy to be able to say that Dr. Stallard speaks encouragingly and that the boy himself, although constantly confined to his bed, is cheerful and hopeful. He is, however, stricken with organic disease of the heart, which is said

to be incurable, although it does not necessarily preclude a life of some activity and usefulness. We try to hope for the best, while we are prepared for the worst.

We rejoice to hear from you of Mr Stanford's convalescense, and pray that he may be spared to you many years.

I have always been very grateful to you, dear Madam, for the delicate way in which you received my poor wife when, in her affliction and distraction, she sought