Correspondence (outgoing) to David Starr Jordan, 1900 Jan - May 9

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4/28/1900 [/top right, different hand]

Stanford

President Jordan

Dear friend

Would it be possible for you to allow Mr. Nash to be released from his duties immediately. I find him quite ill, and if he does not care for himself now he may be a sufferer for some time to come. A vacation now will restore him soon.

[left hand side, vertically] Library to fill his duties.

With esteem, your friend

Jane L Stanford

April 28th 1900

Stanford [/left hand side, vertically]

[right hand side] I have insisted on his having a Physician and will see that he has close attention the rest is in your power to do. Of course he will remonstrate against the release I know him so well but it is an absolute necessity. He would disapprove of my asking this of you he really does not realize his condition. The end of the term is so near it cannot fall hard on the others in the [/right hand side]

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Palo Alto

Dear Dr Jordan

Will you be kind enough to extend the enclosed invitation verbally to all students of Stanford University.

Very sincerely yours

Mrs. Leland Stanford

per Secty.

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[preprinted] UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCEMENT [/preprinted]

[left hand side] Mrs. Stanford extends an invitation to the students of Stanford University to attend a reception to be given to them at her home at Palo [/left hand side] [right hand side] Alto on Tuesday, May the first, nineteen hundred, from three to six o clock p.m.

San Francisco Cal.

April the twentieth

Nineteen hundred [/right hand side]

[left hand side] have but a little time to do it in.

I shall be glad when you get home, and I think you are very much missed at the University, for there is but one Dr. Jordan. I am very much pleased that you and Mrs. Jordan have enjoyed your vacation. You need it. A change of scene and coming in touch, as you say, with others is beneficial, at the same time I feel quite confident that so far as progressive ideas are concerned it will not be long before Stanford University will take the [/left hand side] [right hand side] [top right, different hand] (3/24/00) [/top right, different hand]

Dr. David S. Jordan

Morgantown W. V.

My dear friend:-

It gives me pleasure to answer your kind letter dated March the seventeenth, just received.

With a grateful heart to the Good Father who has so kindly dealt with me through the past seven years, and who had me in his special keeping when my physical body was ill, I acknowledge to you that though severely [/right hand side]