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Kansas city Mo Dec the 16th 1901
Mrs Jane Stanford
San francisco cal
Please excuse me
A stranger for taking
such liberties to rite to a
strange lady especially to
ask a favor of you but
I have just been reading
of your charitable gifts you
gave to the university as the
Lord has blessed you with
good luck and I am a very
poor widdow my husband
has been dead twelve years and
I have worked very hard to get
a living but I am getting a long
in years but still I would
like to have a home of my