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Wells, Fargo & Company,
Express and Banking
San Francisco, March 3rd, 1896

JOHN J. VALENTINE, President, San Francisco.
GEO. E. GRAY, First Vice-President, San Francisco.
DUDLEY EVANS, Second Vice-President, New York.
AARON STEIN, Secretary, San Francisco.
H.B. PARSONS, Assistant Secretary, New York.
HOMER S. KING, Treasurer, San Francisco.

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT.
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Dear Mrs. Stanford:

While I have always unfalterlingly believed that you would triumph in your important legal contest, fortified as you were by Judge Ross' decision (for he is a Judge of unusual ability and character) and have never doubted since his decision the final successful issue, I am none the less glad and thankful that the suspense is at an end, and that you can in truth, as you stated so fitly, be at rest and peace and thankful in your chosen home at Palo Alto, and the educational work to which you are so devoted.

As I have intimated in the past,- amidst all the conflicting interests and the perplexing problems that confuse and bewilder us, we still have, upon scientific grounds alone, due cause for confidence that the human race moves on from its dead self to higher things; but above and beyond all this, dear Madam, there is the sustaining hope and trust in all that is inspiring, and tender, and benificent, based upon the sublime assurance of the best of men that ere wore earth about him, -- our Master and Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ -- to which, I am sure, you are not a stranger.

Sincereley yours,
[John J. Valentine]

Mrs. Jane L. Stanford,
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA.