Correspondence (outgoing), 1896 Mar 18-31

others do unto him.

He was not a believer in creeds and disliked extremely the dogmatisms of the churches, and he frankly said it was the creeds and dogmatisms that prevented men of this age, coming out and uniting themselves with churches.

In his gift to the University he said in a most positive manner, that the students must be taught, the immortality of the soul, the existance of an

all-wise and benevolent Creator, and that obediance to His laws is the highest duty of man." This is being followed to the letter and the religious sentiment prevailing at Stanford University is the most pleasing and most startling, not only to strangers, professors and the President, but to me, for it is so wise spread in its influence and is so very pronounced.

Yours respectfully,

Mrs Leland Stanford

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San Francisco

March 19, 1896.

Dear Mrs. Dayan, - [Hattie S.]

Please accept my sincere thanks for your congratulations and interest.

As for the plants the next time I go down to Palo Alto, I will see Mr. Martin, the gardenere, and find out what he can spare, and will do all that is possible.

Yours gratefully,

Mrs Leland Stanford

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San Francisco

March 19, 1896.

Rev. John J. Keane,-

Highly prized christian friend,

Your valued letter dated March 9th just received and read with interest. One of my causes for gratitude to the all-wise loving Father is the tender, comforting letters which have come to me from friends and from strangers filled with words of cheer and congratulations, and I firmly believe that God

of fear and desolation. They were not unmindful of my pleadings but all along the journey of life for the past three years they have sustained comforted and taught me the way to light, life and truth and to them I still look for wisdom to administer justly and righteously upon the estate and to so conduct the affairs of the University that I will not meet only the approbation of my christian friends on earth, but the