Correspondence (outgoing) to David Starr Jordan, 1895 Jul-Dec

Dr. Jordan Dear Friend:-

I enclose this clipping which I read in the Sunday Call. Please be more careful and not give away any intimation of what I may do in the future, because the future to me looks very unpromising. This suit is far from having been decided. Mr. [?] Kissick will bring it into the Court of Appeals and from there it will go into the Supreme Court. It may not be decided

within a year and even though it is decided, I know from the financial condition of the Railroad Company that I shall feel very reluctant to make any demands, except for what is absolutely necessary and as for building and extending and hiring more professors, I may not do that for several yeras.

If I am able to keep the University in the condition it is now, I shall feel more than thankful. $15,000 a month is a great expenditure and exhausts my ingenuity and resources to such an extent that had I not the University so close to my heart I would relieve myself of this enormous burden and take rest and recreation for the next year, but I prefer to keep the good work going on in its present condition, and I am not promising myself anything further for the future until the skies are much brighter than they

[NEWSPAPER CLIPPING ATTACHED]

[Headline:] Mrs. Stanford's Plans.

[Subheadline:] President Jordan States that She Will Turn Over the Palo Alto Estate.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, June 29-- Soon after the news of Judge Ross' decision reached the university the flag was hoisted on the mast pole and the little community abandoned itself to rejoicing. President David Starr Jordan said:

"I regard the decision of Judge Ross as final. It is hardly probable that it will be reversed. The decision affects the policy of the university only so far as it enables us to carry out plans heretofore published. The present aim is to limit the attendance to 1100 or 1200 students, to equip the institution with the ablest professors and the best facilities to be obtained anywhere, and to make the university as good as any in the world. Mrs. Stanford proposes to put the estate at the disposal of the university just as soon as the courts will allow her. When this is done we will turn our attention to library extension and classroom expansion: we will increase the laboratory facilities and make additions to the faculty."

The decision will have the effect of increasing the proportion of Eastern students, which element has naturally been reluctant about coming West while the shadow of the Government claim hung over the university. No effort, however, will or ever has been made by the faculty to solicit student patronage from any section of the country; the university has always been taxed to its utmost capacity to accommodate the hundreds who flocked here of their own voluntary choice. President jordan says:

"The number of applicants will, no doubt, be largely increased, but the limit may remain at 1200. We don't want an army. We prefer a smaller number, well organized and well equipped."

are now.

Please be very cautious what you say. This article has already had a very depressing effect. I have strenuously denied myself to all reporters as I do not think it safe to give them any intimation as to my future course.

Yours respectfully, Mrs. Leland Stanford

San Francisco, Cal. July 1. 1895.

[Back of newspaper clipping lists market rates for raisins and dried grapes, nuts, honey, beeswax, cured meats, lard, cottolene, bags, coal, cordage...]

Dr. Jordan Dear Friend;-

Accept my sincere thanks for your kind congratulations and sympathy. I dare not yet rejoice.

Gratefully Mrs. Leland Stanford

San Francisco, Cal. July 2. 1895.

Dr Jordan, Dear friend

Accept my sincere thanks for the two letters which have just reached me.

Enclosed I send one of many letters which are coming to me. They are comforting, but yet I dare not let my soul rejoice over the future it must be more sure