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Mr Gage

Kind friend

On my return last eve
from N. York I found
a letter from Percy [?] Hamilton
writing me to the question
asked in his letter I have
decided as follows.
To have the inscription
over the central door
to be as follows.
Erected in memory of
Leland Stanford Junior
by his Mother. To carry out
the design of a Museum
which he conceived and
commenced. I also desire