Correspondence (outgoing) of Charles Lathrop, Business Manager

San Francisco, May 7, 1902

Mr. Chas. Ed. Hodges Stanford University, Cal.

Dear Sir:

Inclosed please find Wells Fargo & Co. Express receipt issued to Mrs. Leland Stanford at Honolulu, Ty. of Hawaii, dated April 29, 1902 for one box curios valued at $80.00 addressed "Mrs Leland Stanford, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. Mrs. Stanford under date of Apr. 26th, writes as follows:

"I ship through W. F. & Co. Express a box of Hawaiian curios to the Museum and I do not wish Mr. Peterson to unpack the box until my return."

Will you kindly see that these instructions are carried out to the letter. I wish you would see that they are properly taken care of so when Mrs. Stanford returns somebody will know where the box is stored.

Respectfully (sgd) CHAS. G. LATHROP Attorney in fact, for Jane L. Stanford

San Francisco, Oct. 22, 1902

Mr. George Adderson Stanford University, Cal.

Dear Sir

On the afternoon of Monday Oct. 27th, at 1:30 P.M., Dr. Chas. R. Brown of Oakland will deliver a lecture before the students of the University on the "Life of Abraham Lincoln". As all the students I presume will wish to hear this lecture, I wish you would kindly arrange for the use of Assembly Hall for that afternoon, as requested by Dr. Jordan.

Respectfully (sgd) CHAS. G. LATHROP

TELEGRAM POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY. Oct. 6/02

Mr. J. C. Stubbs, c/o S. P. Co., Merchant Loan and Trust Bldg. Chicago, Ill.

Car Stanford left on number six, Saturday evening with Mrs. Stanford, for New York. Will you kindly arrange for transfer of car from Northwestern to Lake Shore on arrival in Chicago, Wednesday morning, if no delay occurs enroute.

Charles G. Lathrop

San Francisco, July 31, 1902

Mr. F. W. Covey Palo Alto, Cal.

Dear Sir

Your letter of July 30th received and I note that Mrs. Stanford has given you instructions to advertise the horses that are to be disposed of at Palo Alto Stock Farm. You ask for me to give you my views about advertising. I think it would be well to write up certain horses for sale by Palo Alto Stock Farm, give their names and breeding and we can insert the article in some of the eastern papers also some of the sporting papers on this Cost. [sic] The prices for these horses can be had by addressing the Stock Farm.

Also note that Mrs. Stanford requested you to have her telephone connected with your office. You have a private telephone and I was under the impression that it was connected with her residence. The telephone company will not connect the private phones to the regular phones on the Campus. I will send a man to Palo Alto to put up the line and make the desired connections as requested by Mrs. Stanford. I would suggest and will give instructions to that effect, to have the private line in you [sic] residence removed to the office, as it will be more convenient.

Respectfully, (sgd) CHAS. G. LATHROP

stamped with OFFICE OF JANE L. STANFORD San Francisco, June 9, 1902

C. G. Lathrop, Esq., Dear Sir:

In a letter dated the 14th of May from Mr. Timothy Hopkins, he informs me that the acquisition of the paintings, maps, and minerals known as the Goddard Collection rests with you, and that I could probably obtain the information I desired from you.

The information I desired was simply this: in the event of the University taking to the Collection, do they desire everything as was originally talked about, or only the strictly California things? As I have some application for certain things, I wished for an interview by which I could come to some understanding on this subject. I therefore sent my son to see you and make an appointment where and when I could have such an interview. The reply he brought me is rather hard to comply with as it is fixing a price on an entirely unknown quantity. The question is what the University desire and what would be of use to it.

The California Views amount to some 440 in number, while the old European sketches, copies from old masters and lessons from English water-color painters, etc., etc., bring the number up to nearly 700. These pictures beginning with old San Francisco in 1850 have been carried on wherever business took me - through the mining camps of the early days in Mariposa, Tuolumne, Calaveras, and El Dorado Counties, along Table Mountain from Knight's Ferry, where it disappears under the plains, to the summit of the Sierras, where it seals up the forests of pre-historic times; along the Mother Lode, whose fissures has brought from the depths of earth those golden treasures which have made California what it is. Wherever my surveys were made, Camera Lucida sketches were drawn to help in mapping the country. Thus the surveys for the water ditches, wagon roads, the State Boundary of 1855, and the Railroads, ending with the Central Pacific (which I am the only living surveyor of) have each their series of pictures in the Collection. Later years have added views on Lime Point, Reservation Saucelito, the Quicksilver belt to Mount St Helena, the Comstock, Laurel Hill,