Correspondence (incoming): Barr - Bi, 1892-1901

hopeing [sic] to see the decision of the supreme court in your favour to day brings news of the decision just as I had wished & prayed for. So I think there is one time in life where a servant can consistantly send congratulations. I feel that time in my case is now, for there was no one in the broad land out side of yourself & family, that felt more thankful to god for that Righteous decision than myself, & feeling from my long service for you, that you will accept this & not consider it presumption upon my part

From Your Servant Homer Bishop

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My dear Mrs. Stanford

The committee appointed at the last dinner of the Stanford Alumni Club, to express to you the regret of old Stanford men upon being informed that it is your intention to resign the powers and duties imposed upon you as surviving Founder of the University, has completed the task entrusted to it and I have sent you greetings succinctly embodying the sentiments then expressed.

In presenting them it is but fair to the committee to say that it was impossible to put all that was there said into one set of resolutions. There were so many diverse expressions of the deep gratitude we

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all feel for the opportunities your broad mindedness and generosity has provided for us and those to follow us and so many more showing that the spirit of the Founders which is reflected in our alma mater will be ever cherished to guide us in our endeavor to lead such upright, useful and purposeful lives as those who have had the advantage of being educated among its splendid privileges and opportunities should be capable of, that the committee could only express generally the feelings that prompted them.

That expression of sentiment has been unanimously adopted by the Club.

Very respectfully yours, Louis S. Beedy Chairman