Correspondence (outgoing), 1898 Jun-Dec

Menlo Park, Cal. June 15, 1898 To the Board of Trustees of the Lealand Stanford Jr. Kingergarens. Gentlemen: The resignation of Mr. Joshaih W. Stanford as Trustee has been asked and accepted. Yours respectfully, Jane L. Stanford

Palo Alto To the Honorable Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University. Gentlemen: Feeling that I have good and sufficient reasons for asking for the resignation of Mr. Edward Taylor as a Trustee of the Leland Stanford Jr. University, I as the surviving Founder feel justified in acting upong these reasons and requested his resignation on May 27th which he has delined to tender. I now wish to delcare to you that I decline to further

My dear Mrs. Jordan Words fail me when I try to thank you, and my other friends on the Faculty for your remembrance of me on my birth day The pleasure was so unexpected that it was doubly a pleaseaure and it reached me at a time when and in a place where any expression of friendships from the outside was more than usually

welcome. For I recieved your letter on the morning of my birthday at Vina where as you know I have come to try and straighten out some very unpleasant trouble that had arisen, and you will be glad to know that with what I firmly belived assistance from a higher power than earth can give, the trouble has been overcome and matters are now running smoothly again.

When I review the picture I shall take pleasure in

Dear Mr. Doyle It is unnecessary for me to express my surprise when Mr. Wilsom told me when I saw hime that you had appealed to him to see Mr. Taylor in regard to his resignation. Of course I then concluded that you had entirely changed your views since you held the conversation with me as you then said a gentleman would resign without further ceremony, if requested to do so as he had been