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The Examiner

San Francisco

July 12, 1893

My dear Madam:

I desire to respectfully present a proposition to
your consideration which I trust will meet with your approval as
a particularly timely and proper one. My idea is to have prepared
by the "Examiner" and published in a special edition, a carefully
written and compiled monograph of the life, career and distinguish-
ed public and private services of the foremost of Californians. I
conceive that this, if my ideas are carried out according to the
plan elaborated by me, would occupy about five, or possibly six,
pages of this paper and would include not only numerous engravings
of the Senator at different periods, notable episodes of his
career, buildings, sketches and views at different times, but
also a complete monograph of his life, and including his widely
known pamphlet on the land loan question, which I believe is
conceded to be his best known public effort and covering a subject
the success of which he had so much at heart; this to be followed
by some account of your own relations in his life-work and views
and intentions as to the continuance of the same.

This, as I say, will be prepared for a souvenir edit-
ion of the "Examiner," as stated, and especially with a view of
having the material thus prepared and elaborated afterwards