Correspondence (outgoing), 1898 Jun-Dec

San Francisco Cal July 27th 1898

Mrs [L?????] Hopkins My dear May -

My trip home was all one could have wished. The drive from Soda Springs to the summit we will never forget. The grandeur of the mountain scenery, the luck [Lenice?] had finding L Joseph [???] the amability of our driver, all these

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 birthday.

The pleasure was so unexpected that it was doubly a pleasure, and it reached me at a time when, and in a place where, any expression of friendship from the outside was more than unusually welcome. For I received 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 troubles that had arisen; and you will be glad to know that with what I firmly believe assistance from a higher power than earth can give, the trouble has been overcome and matters are now running smoothly again.

When I receive the picture I shall take pleasure in hanging it in my room where it will be a perpetual reminder of the bond of union that exists between the kind friends who gave it and me.

I will write to Professor Newcomer my appreciation of his beautiful sonnet.

With heartfelt thanks,

Your friend,

Jane L. Stanford, Vina, Aug. 30th, 1898.

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 birthday.

The pleasure was so unexpected that it was doubly a pleasure, and it reached me at a time when, and in a place where, any expression of friendship from the outside was more than unusually welcome. For I received 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 troubles that had arisen; and you will be glad to know that with what I firmly believe assistance from a higher power than earth can give, the trouble has been overcome and matters are now running smoothly again.

When I receive the picture I shall take pleasure in hanging it in my room where it will be a perpetual reminder of the bond of union that exists between the kind friends who gave it and me.

I will write to Professor Newcomer my appreciation of his beautiful sonnet.

With heartfelt thanks,

Your friend,

Jane L. Stanford, Vina, Aug. 30th, 1898.

To Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford, On Her Seventieth Birthday August 25, 1898.

To you, beneath life's reddening sunset ray, Seeing what visions with reverted eyes! - Hope, joy, and anguish, boundless sacrifice, And faith triumphant on the Dolorous Way; To you, in sign of all words cannot say, Thankful at least to know your sorrow lies Safe locked now with the dead years' sanctities, This friendly token let us bring to-day.

For us, still sorrow that your years creep on; For you, but gladness. The world's claim is quit - Fulfilled, and nobly. Happy, who can sit At eventide and look back to the dawn Saying, Not empty has the day withdrawn. Wait for the sunset; peace comes after it.

A.G. Newcomer.

Menlo Park Cal. Oct 31st 1898

Sigma Nu Fraternity,

Dear Sirs:-

Will you kindly read the enclosed letter which was received by my Brother, Mr. C.G. Lathrop, and let me know if you approve of it, as it is in such direct contradition to the spirit which has been evinced by alumni at large

Yours respectfully Jane L. Stanford