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a name and fame that no person on Earch can tarnish and this is worth more to me than the value of the estate.
Gratefully yours Mrs. Leland Stanford
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San Francisco
March 18,1896
Dear Mrs. Guthridge,
Your valued words of congratulation and interest I accept with gratitude. Let me disclaim one suggestion made, the following, "How perfect all things must seem to you now." My dear friend I have not been even joyous, and I cannot see a life of perfection before me, I have still to walk the valley of desolation.
The numerous cares and anxieties which would follow
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the name of Leland Stanford has been left untarnished as an ideal for the children of the land and particularly the eleven hundred students now at the University, worthy for all to imitate.
This is what I struggled, prayed and pleaded for, not for that which may be in the estate, for that was secondary.
I thank you sincerely and your husband for your kind interest, and your willingness to be of service. I send you a photograph herewith taken in 1881
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when my ear boy was twelve years old.
Gratefully yours, Mrs Leland Stanford
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San Francisco
Mar. 18, 1896.
Dear Mrs. Windom [Ellen T.],
That you should send your blessings to the Leland Stanford University has touched the innermost depths of my heart, and my heart dear friend is very tender, tender because of the bleeding and desolate condition it has been in for the past three years and because of the great burden of anxiety which rested upon me; tender now in gratitude to God
