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truthful doctrine taught first by the Son of God, Jesus Christ
I know these books will be accepted with great pleasure by the students of the university.
Yours gratefully,
Mrs. Leland Stanford
Ver NB Secy.
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University with its eleven hundred students and the tax of sustaining it under such adverse circumstances makes it impossible for me to give that attention to your kind request as would be necessary.
With many thanks for your kind interest
Yours respectfully Mrs Leland Stanford
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[postmaster stamp] SAN FRANCISCO MAY 17 6 AM 1895
Mr. Jas. D. Lynch Metropolitan Hotel Washington D.C.
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Mr Jas. D Lynch
Dear Sir:
Your letter dated May 4th has been received and I regret exceedingly that at presen[t] my mind and my time is so completely occupied and I might say, burdened with cares and anxieties that it would be impossible for me to give you any aid or assistance in getting up such a biographical sketch of the life of my husband
You can well understand that the managing of the
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Thomas H. Hubbard Mills Building New York City N.Y.
The letter address to me at Albany care Ariel Lathrop has failed to reach me it is not here
Jane L. Stanford
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almost too great for a humane being to bear and live and to seek for an audience with the highest executives of the land to press upon them a sad story and to have to then appeal for help. It was a trial almost overpowering to my womanly reserve. After it was over it did make me ill. Towards you I owe a debt of gratitude I am not able to express. You put me at ease by your most respectful courtesy and kindness of heart. It left with me
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I shall keep the doors of the University open this year however hard the struggle may be putting my trust in an all wise merciful Father for the final decision of the government suit against my husband's estate. I pray that it may come this year & against whichever way the ending may be I shall never forget to be grateful
