Correspondence (incoming): Ra - Re, 1893-1896

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[pre-printed]Evening Wisconsion Co. Milwaukee. [end preprinted]

[preprinted script] The Wisconsin Chair Company

F. A. Dennett, President. J. R. Dennett, Vice Prest. W. H. Ramsey, Jr Sec'y & Treas.

Manufacturers. The Mc.Lean Pat. Swing Rocker a specialty. Port Washington, Wis., [end preprinted script] March 4th [preprinted script]189[end preprinted script]6

My Dear Mrs Stanford

There is joy in the Ramsey household. Please accept our sincere congratulations, at your success. The veil of uncertainty is now lifted. and a day of sunshine comes to you, God grant that many years of health be given you to go on with the noble work which you are heart and soul engaged in, no one can realize without personal knowledge, how unselfish you are actuated in this grand effort for the cause of education, and a common humanity. No one can estimate how much this effort on your part is for the future of California, and in my judgment it is the duty of her citizenship to sustain and be with you in your noble effort. We have thought of you many many times during the finding of this

[pre-printed]Evening Wisconsion Co. Milwaukee. [end preprinted]

[preprinted script] The Wisconsin Chair Company

F. A. Dennett, President. J. R. Dennett, Vice Prest. W. H. Ramsey, Jr Sec'y & Treas.

Manufacturers. The Mc.Lean Pat. Swing Rocker a specialty. Port Washington, Wis., _______ 189__ [end preprinted script]

-cuse, Mrs Ramsey would write you, but I regret to say that she is down with the "Grippe" and under a physicians care. She wishes to be remembered with much love,

Please remember me kindly to your brother, Very Truly Yours Wm H Ramsey

[image: engraving of a four storey building, the Hollenbeck Hotel, on a street corner, signed P. Dore - ENG - L. A.]

[preprinted] THE HOLLENBECK THE LEADING HOTEL COR. SPRING AND SECOND STS. A. C. BILICKE & CO., Proprietors. Los Angeles, Cal. [end preprinted] Aug 1st [preprinted] 1983. [end preprinted]

Mrs Leland Stanford San Francisco Cal. Dear Madam

Ever since the Leland Stanford Jr. University was started it was my idea and desire to do something for it in way of photo collections of the noted South West Indians, including a number of tribes. From 1882 I was on the frontier and made special study of Indian life untill 1890. Was with General Crook on a number of indian campaigns & I have over 200 hundred indian negatives. I have furnished some for the Smithsonian Institute which their records will show. Since collecting these and the information concerning them I have not been able to carry out my intention. I wish to ask if I should forward a few samples that there could be any [illegible/crossed out] chance of my disposing

of them to the institution.

I was in hopes that fortune would favor me so that I could give them, but I am in need and would like to submit them for your indulgence and approval that I may hear a favorable answer.

I am very respectfully A. F. Randall c/ Hollenbeck Hotel.

[pre-printed] 15 KELVIN GROVE, LIVERPOOL, S. [end pre-printed]

30/8/93

Dear Mrs Stanford

You're too kind. I hardly hoped that the next mail would have [insert] brought [/insert] your photo with a duplicate of Mr Stanford, but it did to my great pleasure. I wish I had a better return of an artistic kind to make than on the enclosed comparitive miniature of my own countenance.

As you will guess from my previous enclosures, I have what some of my friends here call "a bee in my bonnet" - as to education. I have lost no opportunity of visiting schools & colleges, not only in the United Kingdom, but in the European Continent. On my second visit to America, I devoted a considerable time to this work, and under the auspices of dear old Peter Cooper, spent some time in the NY schools going west as far as Louisville & Chicago. On my return I lectured in Manchester, where the announcement of a famous politician of the day as chairman secured me a large audience. The information I had [begot soon ?] afterwards embodied in a pamphlet

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& commented on in the metropolitan press. Some of it was as novel to the public as Normal Schools ([illegible]) were to Americans not long before.

In 1873 I spent the fall in a still more delightful tour including the schools of Canada & went again to Chicago. The whole question had made a prodigious stride in those 10 years. I wrote a number of sketches in a newspaper embodying these results & I enclose them feeling sure they will be of interest to you. In1881 I again travelled over the same ground, recognizing especially in Womens Colleges like Wellesley & others a further advance. A hope that I might still have a [illegible] like visit to the new & [memory?] land & possibly [illegible] not only my friend at Berkeley but especially the Leland Stanford [illegible] of the [illegible]. is only frustrated by an unexpected loss of income last year. I shall however not less rejoice in the knowledge