Correspondence (outgoing), 1896 Mar 18-31

Copy.

San Francisco,

Mar. 18, 1896.

Dear Mrs. [Ellen T.] Windom,-

That you should send your blessing 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

that He in His great goodness took notice of the widow and the desolate and united Heaven with earth to bring about justice, to the name and character of my dear husband, which are dearer to me than all else that may come, left them to the children of the land and the eleven hundred students who are now filling the institution to over flowing, as an ideal worthy for all to imitate, and I have much to thank my dear

Father in Heaven for I have the testimony of hundreds who have sent letters of sympathy and congratulations and to whom I am deeply indebted, and these letters will all be left in the archives of the institution for future generations to peruse, and from them learn that there is a tender side of human nature, a Christ like God germ that is in touch and in sympathy with the oppressed and heart broken.

My dear friend, sorrow, such

as you and I have to bear, being parted from our loved ones by the inseparable barrier death, teaches us lessons which are probably fitting us to occupy a higher seat in the beyond than would otherwise have been ours had not our hearts turned for help to the dear Master.

Accept my heart felt gratitude for your tender letter.

Gratefully yours,

Mrs Leland Stanford

on the Mount was always the sermon which he held up before his associates, his friends and the students of the University, as the grandest, simplest and the most beautiful guide for the children of earth, that could have been uttered from the mind of man. The considered it purely Divine, his one maxim and which he quoted so often, that it is familiarly known to those closest to him, was the simple maxim of doing unto others as he would have