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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
San Francisco, March 8th 96

My Dear Mrs Stanford

Circumstances
of course compeled me to appear
for the Govt against you, in your
noble and heroic effort to preserve
for yourself, and the State of Cali-
fornia the University that bears
the name of your dear son.
But not for one moment { ?} I had
any other feeling than that you
ought and would succeed, in preserv-
ing to the young men and women now
living, and to then yet unborn the
blessings entailed by the preservation
of the institution so beloved in this State.

You will stand as you deserve to
be the great central heroic