Correspondence (outgoing) to David Starr Jordan, 1896 Oct-Dec

Dear Dr. Jordan:-

Your communication dated October twenty-first just at hand. I read in the newspaper of the high compliment which had been paid you in tendering you the Directorship of the Smithsonian Institute - and I also read with great thankfulness to God that you most emphatically expressed yourself as being ready and willing to serve the best interests of the Leland Stanford Jr. University as long as you could be of use there. Now let me say that

[left side] love and respect of all and of the students, and commands my tenderest love and gratitude. I hope and pray that as long as the dear Father keeps me here in the mortal life that you will stand firm and steadfast in your loyalty to the Stanford University.

I returned home day before yesterday and found my brother Henry in a very critical condition of health. I came back strong, mentally and physically, but

that blessed assurance comforts me more than I can express, and I offered a mental prayer of grateful thanks to the All-[?] Loving Father that you had been led through His instrumentality, to be the head, and the front of the Institution which was so dear to the heart of my husband and dearer still to me, because of the great burdens which I have had to carry in order to insure its existence, you have been more to me since my dear husband departed

from the mortal life to the life immortal, in keeping at its helm, guiding and steering through the fog, that obscured the sunlight, you have gained in strength and strengthen the University. You have gained in power through out the whole length and breadth of our State and by this means added power to the University, and thanks be to God your power and your strength are of a high Christian character which commands the

since my return feel very anxious about my dear brother. Today he is better - more cheerful and appears stronger. If all goes well I shall be at Palo Alto tomorrow, Saturday, and shall remain over Monday to hear Mrs Chapman and Catt speak. It has occurred to me that it would be very pleasing to Mrs. Catt to have some of the professors and their wives, if not all, sit on the platform with her. I have been asked to introduce her

that afternoon, but this I cannot do - my natural timidity would not permit it. But I may sit on the platform if you and Mrs. Jordan are to be there.

Your grateful friend, Mrs Leland Stanford

San Francisco October 23, 1896.

Dear Dr. Jordan: -

I send you these books on the subject of "Money" thinking that pehaps you could distribute them among the Professors. Mr. Valentine kindly sent me a dozen copies, several of which I placed in the library.

Your friend, Jane L. Stanford A.

Palo Alto, October twenty-eight. 'ninety six.