Correspondence (incoming): Brown, J. E. (owner/editor of San Francisco Vindicator), 1893

Senator Stanford & estate,

I particularly regret that an error of the type writer should have caused a misconception of my meaning.

I would feel extremely favored if you would convey to Mrs Stanford my sincere apologies for the inadvertence as also to say, that I will have the honor to address her a letter shortly, which I trust will be fully esplanatory [sic] of my meaning

Very respectfully JE Brown

OFFICE OF THE SAN FRANCISCO VINDICATOR, 622 Clay Street J. E. BROWN Editor and Proprietor. San Francisco, September 1893

Mrs Jane L Stanford Honored Madame

I am in receipt of your Secretary, Miss Susie B. Bristol's favor of August 5th in reply to my letter of a few days ago, requesting your kind consideration of the efforts made in my paper, the VINDICATOR, in behalf of the deceased Senator Stanford. Owing to an unfortunate error on the part of the typewriter who transcribed the original of the letter, the word "prosecuting" was substituted for "presenting" in the first sentence, and this error I regret to say escaped my notice. Nothing could be further from my intention, than to convey the idea that I had a legal claim upon the deceased Senator, as the context of my letter fully shows. I was merely representating that I thought I had been of some slight service to him in relation to the political sentiment of my race, and others, leaving to himself whatever he might see fit to do towards assisting me in my journalistic endeavors to elevate and better their condition; this idea being further strengthened by the fact that the Senator was very friendly to my father in the fifties.

I regret exceedingly the unfortunate error which I have

Throwing myself wholly upon your sympathy and generosity, I have the honor to remain, Honored Madame,

Very respectfully your most obedient Servant, J E Brown 932 Clay Street

P.S. You will , I feel sure pardon my seeming impartunity, and repeated applications to your generosity and sympathy, in consideration that my circumstances are by no means prosperous, and that I am dependent upon the sympathies of those who contribute to the maintenance of my Journal.

Furthermore were it not for the fact of my physical infirmities, I would be much better able to face the vicissitudes of life. JEB

San Francisco August 14.93

[?] [?]Bristol

Respected Madame

Referring to a letter addressed by me to Mrs Stanford some days ago, in which I called her attention to the extracts accompanying said letter from my paper the Vindicator, and which was replied to on the 5th current by yourself, to the effect that Mrs Stanford could not admit that I had any claim upon her, or on the late

Senator Stanford & estate.

I particularly regret that an error of the type writer should have caused a misconception of my meaning.

I would feel extremely favored if you could convey to Mrs Stanford my sincere apologies for the inadvertence, as also to say, that I will have the honor to adress her a letter shortly , which I trust will be fully explanatory [sic] of my meaning

Very respectfully JEBrown