Correspondence (outgoing)

I had heard of your son and his marked ability through Dr. Jordan God grant he may be all your fond heart desires.

Yours gratefully Mrs. Leland Stanford

July 6th 95 Vina Tehama Co. Cal

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Mr. Morrill Goddard Kind Sir -

Your communication dated July 23rd has just reached me. I apprecaite very deeply the compliment tendered by so powerful and influential a Paper as the New York World offering its columns for my use in order "to help the work under my care." The time may come when I will thankfully take advantage of your generous and

noble proposition. [crossed out: At present while] So long as there exists the slightest doubt as to the ultimate decision of the highest tribunal of the United States government, I dare not give expression as to my hopes or intuitions regarding the future of the University. I am laboring under painful embarrassments which burden me heavily with care and anxiety, but I am thankful and grateful to be able to keep the benefaction

existing - even in its present cramped condition I have noble self sacrificing coworkers in the President and Faculty who have aided me in their [crossed out: silent sympathy but] sympathy expressed not in words but in deeds.

Yours most gratefully Mrs. Leland Stanford July 30th / 95 S. F. Cal.

while here on earth, deeds are recorded in heaven, not words, therefore he is now spared regrets. If I am destined to bear more sorrow, I shall try to be resigned to the will of Him who shapes our destinies, feeling whatever of trials and tribulations may yet come. They are a part of Gods great plan. and I must do the best I can to live on without complaining. I know joy will come when earth life is over, and I am reunited with my loved ones never again to be separated. The waiting will be hard without my work to do but each day brings the end nearer.

I sent your blessed letter to Dr. Jordan. I know he will prize its contents. He has stood by me nobly, and is a tower of strength. The faculty too have never wavered in their beleif[sic belief] in the future.

[right page] Mr. Stanford Aug 9 1895

Hon Andrew [ ?] White

Kind friend:

There is so little I can say in return to you for your tender sympathetic letter. Words are so feeble when the heart overflowes with emotions such as fill mine in these days of desolation, hope, and fear.

The All Powerful One on whome I lean, and to whome I confide the innermost secrets of my troubled heart, gives evidence of His tender watchfulness by strengthening me through noble friends, such as