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THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
[notation: Copy]
16th. April, 1900
[ink stamp: COPY]
To General Thomas H. Hubbard,
Mills Building, New York, N. Y.
Telegram Sixteenth just received. Elected Mr. Derby Secretary yesterday. Am opposed to anyone holding that position who is a partisan of any one interest; consequently am opposed to my brother as Treasurer.
MRS. LELAND STANFORD.
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This page is script on back of telegram. Typed elsewhere.
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San Jose, April 8th., 1900
Messrs. Wilson & Wilson,
Attorneys-at-law,
San Francisco, California.
Mr. Russell J. Wilson,
Dear Sir:-
A year having expired since your firm were employed to attend to business that might be brought to your attention for advice to myself or my brother, Mr. C. G. Lathrop, I now desire to renew another engagement for the coming year, beginning with this month of April on the same terms as last year, namely Eight Thousand Dollars ($8,000.00) a year.
As I have been dismissed from the Probate Court, and I do not anticipate much law business, but I desire advice and counsel arising from business affairs generally.
I most particularly desire your valuable service in siding in the settling of my affairs in the Pacific Improvement Company which will in all probability begin to be adjusted this coming year, and during my absence from America. I wish you to assist my brother, C. G. Lathrop, who is my representative in the P. I. Co., with the same zeal you and he have shown in my behalf in the past. I shall advise my brother to feel he can come to you for assistance in caring for my interest in the Company, and I
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wish to constitute you as my Attorney & advisor, and his, in settling this business suggested.
Trusting this will meet with your approval, I remain, as in the past,
Your sincere friend,
(Signed)- JANE L. STANFORD.
P. S. If you find it necessary to use this letter to enforce your duty with the Associates of the P. I. Co. and to myself and brother, you are at liberty to show this letter.
(Signed)- JANE L. STANFORD.
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Mrs Stanford
April 9th 1900
Mrs Timothy Hopkins
Dear May -
Will you kindly give me the address of the Lady Courier who took charge of you and arranged the trip and accompanied you up the Nile.
I recollect hearing you say she was so very capable, I thought if possible I would like to secure her services to attend me on my trip.
Will you also give me a letter of introduction to her - I trust you
