Correspondence (incoming): Sta - Sti, 1891-1902

711 Taylor St. San Francisco Dec 2nd 1891

My dear Mrs. Stanford

Except for continuous ill health since our affliction and the threatening weather I [should?] avail myself of the pleasure of calling upon you to pay my respects instead of sending this note but I could not have you take your departure without again expressing my great appreciation of the grand work of yourself and Senator Stanford.

At the time I visited the Leland Stanford Jr University and took my eldest grandson Edward E. Painter age 16 years

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

Leland S. Stillman to Mrs Stanford May 20th 1902

My dear Mrs. Stanford,-

I want to give you a bit of news about myself that may interest you a little, and that is my engagement to Miss Ada Latimer of this city. She is the daughter of the late Charles Latimer, a civil engineer of Cleveland Ohio, who died in 1888, the same year my father died. Her mother has been dead for many years. She is a graduate of Vassar College and has been teaching for a number of years in Miss Veltin's school for girls in West 74th Street, preferring to be in-