Correspondence (incoming): Fa - Fl, 1892-1896

1118 Guerrero St., San Francisco, Cal.

July 11th, 1893.

Mrs Leland Stanford,

Palo Alto, Cal.

Dear Madam:

I am requested by a friend in Eureka, Nevada to correspond with you in reference to a cabinet of minerals she has for sale. It was collected by her husband during a period of thirty years, and contains many fine and unique specimens from all over the world. The cabin

et is now on exhibition at the World's Fair, where it might be seen by your agents. My friend asks me to visit you at Palo Alto upon this business, but I have decided first to write and ask whether you would wish to see me about it. The cabinet is part of a collection exhibited by [Morrison ?] and Schneider, and her portion (Mrs. Schneider's) is valued at $15.000.

With respect,

Mrs. H. L. FitzGerald

Tuesday 1010 California Street

My dear Mrs Stanford

I have wanted to come in and see you again, but have been detained at home - to thank you so much for the photographs of yourself and the Governor - and to ask if the Governor's health is better! I wish you could come in and have lunch with us some day about half past twelve,

and have a little visit with Mamma. We are always quite alone - any day except tomorrow I suppose the Governor would not feel like coming? If so, we would be only too glad to see him & I want to show you a portrait of Papa, by David Neal - with love, always

Affectionately yrs Cora Jane Flood.

Supreme Court of the United States Washington, D.C. October 15th, 1904

Dear Mrs. Stanford,

I see by notices at different times in the journals of your State and of the Eastern States, taht you are likely to be subjected to litigation to determine your rights and those of the University. You know that I was honored with selection by the Governor as one of its regents. I was at the time somewhat apprehensive that I might, if I accepted the position, be drawn into litigation in some way affecting the interests of the University or of the Government in its relation to that institution, and so, at first. I objected to the appointment, but the Governor seemed to think that all subjects of controversy, so far as the interests of the University were concerned, would be amicably adjusted, and he urged me to accept the position, observing that I could at any moment resign if litigation should arise.

I see by the notices in the papers that there is some prospect of litigation of that character. I do not know the nature of that litigation, nor can I see in what repect I might be affected by it. I therefore, after consultation with some friends, think it wise and proper for me to send you my resignation as one of the regents of the University, to be handed by you to them.

I think I may, without impropriety, express the wish that the litiration apprehended, if it should arise, may result in advancing the best interests of the country and the University, without impariing either of them.

I am, My dear Mrs. Stanford, with great respect, Your friend and obedient servant (Signed) Stephany Field.

Mrs. Leland Stanford.