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Vina Cal. Aug. 17. 1893.

Mrs. Jane L. Stanford.

Dear Madame

If I understand your expressions correctly
at your last visit to Vina, I plainly observed
your dissatisfaction in connection with this place.
I felt very much like offering you my hand as
an honest man, with only good intentions, &
rendering you the assistance you deserve,
but a second thought prompted me, to resist,
as I could see you were already undergoing
more trials and worriment, than you can well
bear. I therefore kept to myself that which
I someday hope to explain to you. I feel
that perhaps, a few words of explanation,
rightly given would free your mind from some
doubts. I shall only give them out of kindness
& the interest I take in you and your welfare.
I therefore place all trust in you to keep
what you may learn from me, confidential
as I am now being looked upon here, as the
one to inform you of some repors, I prefer