Correspondence (incoming): White, Andrew D., 1893-1904

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and {brided?} in my family as a companion for my daughter. She was universally respected and liked.

She is a graduate of Vassar College, has had the advantages of foreign study and travel and is an orphan.

Hoping that you are recovering from the great shock, and finding comfort in carrying out the grand plan of your noble husband as well as strength in the {consciousness?} of

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the vast value of the work. I remain

Very respectfully and truly yours,

Andrew D. White

Mrs Leland Stanford

Legation of the United States St. Petersburg.

3 Oct. 1893

Dear Mrs Stanford,

Permit me to present Miss Margaret Wickham who goes to take a position in the Instructing body of your University.

Miss Wickham is an excellent scholar and an admirable woman. For some time she taught in a high grade preparatory school conducted by one of our Cornell Professors

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and I believe that like many things which secured at the time calamities in the history of Cornell University, it will prove to be a blessing in disguise by making the friends and alumni and alumnae of the Stanford University even more devoted to it than they otherwise would be.

It secures in the order of nature that every good growth as great thing must cost pains and trouble, perhaps agony, before it can fully be brought into the light and

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United States Court in regard to the suit brought against your honored husband's estate. You have shown and are showing a spirit which does honor not only to American womanhood but to human nature. Long after we are both gone centuries indeed afterward, your conduct in all of this matter will be held up as a beautiful example to American men and women.

As to the suit, I have never had any doubt as to the ultimate result,

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made to do great work for human kind.

Stanford University will be all the better for this storm, as the oak tree in the open field, exposed to all the blasts, sends forth its roots more widely and deeply than one which is protected.

I have just returned to America after my three years absence in Russia and elsewhere in Europe, and find my hopes of American institutions of every sort, and especially of our better institutions of learning among which I especially include Stanford, vastly

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(dictated) Cornell University Ithaca, New York July 13th, 1895

Dear Mrs. Stanford, It is long since I have been so deeply touched by anything which I have read in the newspaper as by an interview with yourself regarding the present condition of your noble University and your own relation to it. And I have rarely rejoiced over any piece of news as much as over the decision of the

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strengthened and increased never did their work seem to me more worthy, never were my hopes more sanguine regarding our educational system than at present.

Will you please present assurances of my respect and regard to President and Mrs. Jordan as well as to Professor Howards Mr. Woodruff and others of my old friends whom you may meet, not forgetting Dr. Stebbins and Mr. Doyle.

I remain, dear Mrs. Stanford most respectfully and sincerely yours

Andrew D. White

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answered Aug 1895