Correspondence (incoming): Gould, Elizabeth Porter, 1894-1903

ansd Mch. 17/96 SF

100 Huntington Ave. Boston, March 2 1896

My dear Mrs. Stanford.

I must tell you how pleased I am to read in this evening's Transcript that your heroic effort in behalf of your beautiful memorial has been

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selling of the jewels if need be! The future will appreciate this even more than the present.

Now, my dear Mrs. Stanford, with kindest wishes for you personally, believe me to be, Yours Most Sincerely

Elizabeth Porter Gould.

blessed with success. I can fully understand how the depths of your earnest nature are stirred with true gratitude.

Now, may I wish you peace and truest prosperity

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in all future undertakings concerning the grand University? Its value in money is nothing compared to the riches your abounding love gives to it. How I do love such self-sacrifice as you showed, even to the

this and said now will be a little ray of light to the cloud which some see hanging over the work by the recent action of the government. I for one see only hope in the great seed sown by your and yours. May it be more and more a restful, blessed

tree under which shall gather the minds from all nations, to develop to the glory of God and man!

I am also happy to send you one of my little books, as a very slight appreciation of what you have done for the progress of the kinder-

100 Huntington Ave. Boston, Massachusetts.

December 13 1894.

My dear Mrs Standford. [sic]

It gives me pleasure to send in the mail with this a little notice of my visit to the great University, last year when I had the good fortune to meet your husband. Perhaps

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garten. As a friend of Miss Peabody, I am deeply interested in all the work so near her heart ere she left for the larger mansion. How your heart must rejoice in having thus blessed the child life!

With all kind wishes, believe me to be,

most sincerely

Elizabeth Porter Gould

lighted to share with you some day a look at them.

When you are in Boston please let me know, and I will call on you and escort you to our home in this pretty part of Boston? I know I ask much, for other claims are yours when in this vicinity; but now that University cares and responsibilities are lightened you may have more time and inclination to do other things. I am sure you would enjoy my autographs and other literary treasures, which my pleasant literary life has brought me. My collection of autograph--

books is even willed to a public place!

I like to think that my "Gems from Walt Whitman" is in your University. I hope my "Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman" is, too. I am just now correcting people for "John Adams and Daniel Webster as Schoolmasters," which is to appear in time for the great educational convention to be held here in Boston in July. I am grateful indeed that its merit is such that the Hon. Charles Francis Adams, President of the Mass. Historical Society, has gladly written a