Correspondence (outgoing), 1904

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Hotel Del Monte

Monterey, Calif.,

July 14, 1904.

Dear Mrs Mills,

Your communication dated July 9th received, and very welcome.

In relation to the subject therein named - co-education, is in my feeble opinion an unsolved question. It is still in its infancy, and only time and experience can definitely settle the very important and very serious question.

I am willing to give it a fair and impatial trial, and I believe God who in His Wisdom knows all, rules all - even in sorrow as well as in joy - will open the minds of the wise rulers of earth to decide this troublesome and delicate question, and it will be

in the end settled to the advantage of both sexes.

The Trustees of the Stanford University are wise experienced men, some of them University graduates, and they are giving me great release from responsibility that had grown too heavy from its long protracted term, and growing older each year, not younger made me feel it was time to ask these grand men to help me. They have responded most nobly, and the outlook is proving far beyond my fondest expectations.

With friendly greetings, your well-wisher

(Signed) Jane L. Stanford

For Mrs Stanford collection may get original later/w

Mr. Wales L. Palmer, 231 First St., San Francisco, Cal. My good friend: With pleasure to myself I address you as "my good friend." Our friendship dates back to the time when the great Bishop Newman visited our city and gave us such spiritual enlightenment as no other minister of the gospel had ever given to me, and my husband, who has passed on and is now enjoying the light which he brought to our darkened souls. I thank you most sincerely for the earnest thought you have always taken in the work so sacredly left to my care; for I notice by your letter that from its inception up to the present time I have had your strengthening thoughts, and I believe, your prayers. The dear Father has dealt more kindly with me than I am able to express to Him while in the body. He led me from darkness to light, and He has made it possible for me to be a weak instrument to carry out the desires and the wishes of those who were dearest in earth-life to me. I never think of them as being what the world says, "dead," or "lost." They are living in a higher, better, condition of life, beyond temptation, beyond sickness, and I sincerely believe they are instrumental in guiding and helping me in my work, and acting the part of guardian angels such as the New Testament has promised us. I read your address with great pleasure. I happened to have company spending the day and evening with me when it came and I read it aloud to them. It made a great impression upon them, and in the evening after dinner I took up a weekly paper, and there found allusions made to the very subject, -- the carelessness and the indifference and the injustice of our courts in not dealing out proper punishment to such as committed that crime. Please remember me kindly to Mrs. Palmer and your children. Ever your friend and well-wisher, (signed) Jane L. Stanford per E.S., Sec'y. Palo Alto, Cal., Oct. 3, 1904.