Correspondence (incoming): Ri, 1893-1896

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neighbors. M.L.R.

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utterly prostrated financially during the past two years but is hoping to spend his last days in quiet & peace some where in California. I pray God to give him this & to lighten his money troubles.

I think you would love Leland Stanford Conners only for

844 Prospect Street Cleveland

Oct 14 '94

Dear Mrs. Stanford,

Your kind message was given me by my son, and nothing less than a note in reply can attest my appreciation.

No words of mine can tell you with what interest I think of the university. Its great endowment would make it interesting, the fact that my son is there would add to its interest for me, but more than all other things that which makes it seem a sacred place is the parental devotion which, in submission to God's will, has manifested itself in this noble work.

The mother's love which it was my privilege to recognize and the oneness of life and purpose of yourself and your beloved husband filled me with reverential admiration.

You will know how my thoughts and sympathy were with you when I learned of your bereavement, and though absent from Palo Alto I must always be deeply interested in the University.

The University so sacredly dedicated, so generously endowed, and so devotedly cherished must eventually do the work for which it was founded.

The Leland Stanford Jr. University will always be to me as

societal with the most beautiful and sacred human aspirations and I shall ever be grateful for the privilege of having known its founders.

Sincerely yours, Lucy [S] Richardson

Mrs Lucy Richardson rec'd Mrs. S's messaege and tells her thoughts of the university and it's founders.