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MILLS COLLEGE, CAL.
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

P.O. ADDRESS
MILSS COLLEGE P.O. CAL.

July 9th, 1904.

My dear Mrs. Stanford: -

I beg your pardon for the long delay in replying to your kind letter. I have been absent from home for several weeks and found a great accumulation of mail on my return. I needed the rest and change.

I wish our trustees would take the responsibility and care from me. You feel that yours depend upon you too much, and so do I. I congratulate you, however, upon having an abundance of means so that you do not feel, as I do, obliged to look carefully after the details during vacation as well as in term time, that we may be sure of meeting our expenses.

The matter concering which I wished to talk with you was in regard to co-education. We both believe in it, at the same time our practice is different, but the general sentiment of the community here and at the east is changing, and it is though better that young men and young women during their undergraduate work should not be taught toghter. It was concerning this whole subject that I though I would like to talk with you after your long experience and observation.

I have a great horror of appearing in print in any way, and so I am very careful as to what I write. I know you will appreciate my feeling. Sometime possibly you will feel that you have the leisure that that I can have a quiet talk with you.

I hope that the summer will be a restful one to you, and that you will have more and more comfort in the great work you have inaugurated. I am sure that your dear ones in heaven are with you in sympathy all the time.

With kindest regards, believe me,
Yours very truly,

Susan [L.?] Mills