Correspondence (incoming): Har - Hay, 1890-1903

And young women to prepare themselves for a fair show in the hard competition of this world This fixes your husband's place indelibly in the worlds estimation. And the final verdict will be that he was in many senses the very foremost man of his generation. though it was a generation which included some of the greatest names in history

From my obscure position in life it gives me great pleasure to pay to him this humble tribute.

In your note to me regarding Palo Alto, the faulty sentiment you express when you say you hope the day will be full of sun shines to me, for to you it is the Eden of the world is not equal to the reality, it is hard to find words to express the beauty and grandeur of that spot.

We have two (what we think) lovely boys two and twelve years old. It will be the dream of my life to have them educated at Palo Alto. As for myself, I am doing what I can in my restricted way to try to give my children a fair education. And to take from my Mother and Wife the petty cares which wear out the life of a woman as the years begin to grow heavy

Once more thanking you for your Kindness to me and mine. I am

Most Respefly

[?] C. Harrison

c/o Oxford Club Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City

April 11th 1894

Mrs. Leland Stanford

San. Francisco, California

My Dear Madam

Called suddenly from San. Francisco, and having been much absorbed since my return. My thanks for your Kindness to my Mother Wife and myself while in California have been too long delayed

Then too, what you did, how you are situated. the miracle of your own and your lamented husbands life have filled my thoughts continually, even when engaged in my business. That he could start out in life a poor boy, and while fulfilling all the duties to family and Country, could in the space of a life so direct his brain as to make it a chief factor in creating the eighth wonder of the world change the direction of commerce and at his word call ships from across two Oceans and move trains across a Continent. Altogether making such an exhibition as excites the wonder of man more and more, as it is more and more considered But, as was at last developed this was but preliminary to giving the world an object lesson, that after all his real ambition was to elevate his fellow men, to establish something, which so long as time lasts, will year after year make it possible for young men

Ansd June 10.1903

Monday May 25th 1903

Dear Mrs Stanford.

Papa wishes to add to mine his regrets that we were unable to avail ourselves of your very kind invitation before leaving California. But we had to hurry

off and it was well he did so, as, if he had waited a day longer, he would have had to be operated on for appendicitis in the west instead of here at home. Dr Bull says it is a perfectly "clean case"& Papa is doing so well. We are all

very much relieved, & feel quite confident that we will be able to sail on June 9th.

Papa and I both send our kindest regards, and hope to be more lucky another time in seeing you.

Wishing you a successful and pleasant summer.

Sincerely yours

Mary Harriman

REV. NEWMAN L. HEROY.

Methodist Parsonage.

Monroe, N.Y., July 5, 1895

Mrs. Leland Stanford

My Dear Madam.

I have read a paragraph going the rounds of the press to the import that you have devoted your jewels to the service of the University so generously founded by your late lamented husband. Though a stranger, and though you may receive many notes of sympathy and congratulation from men and women of note, yet I cannot forbear sending you an expression of my sincere admiration for such devotion to the cause of education favoring our poorer young men and women. I do it with so much more assurance that the President