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Council Bluffs, Iowa

Sept. 5 1899

Mrs. Leland Stanford,

Palo Alto, Cal.

Dear Madam, It may seem presumptious in
me, only a hard-working little mother, to address
you; but since you also have experienced ma-
ternity, you must have a heart. Therefore I fear
not, but approach you on the sacred ground
of motherhood.

Ever since I saw your face pictured among the
pages of "Success" I have been haunted by a de-
sire to write to you. That desire has been wrest-
led with, put down, battled with again and
again only to present and assert itself more
tenaciously than before.

It is my wish to know more of the school so
nobly founded at Palo Alto, Cal., to know more
of its faculty, its rules and its advantages
offered to young men.

I have three bright, nice boys whose future
is my anxiety. We wish to give them every op-
portunity, but our means are limited. How
I wish that they may grow up in the shadow
of such an institution and when old enough,