Correspondence (outgoing) to David Starr Jordan, 1901

Shepheard's Hotel, Cairo, Jan. 30, 1901.

Dr. D. S. Jordan,

Dear friend:-

Some time has elapsed since writing you. Now, as I am on the eve of starting for the long anticipated trip up the Nile, and expecting to take six weeks or two months, if all goes well, I think it best to acknowledge the receipt of your cablegram received here on January 25th - "Ask permission to publish in Universitie's defense certain passages from your letters as Lieb and I may deem advisable". To be frank with you, I do not feel happy over the fact that you wish again to justify your action by quoting me. I have said nothing in my letters that I would object to have quoted. I am very thankful that I have said so much less than I feel in regard to this controversy over Ross. My answer by cable "I decline being further quoted in the Ross matter. Your personal knowledge of the man is sufficient to defend the University." expressed to you that I feel it is wrong to quote me in my basence.

I am sorry that just on the eve of my departure, I am again filled with anxiety in regard to the affect all the controversy may have upon the furture of the University.

If my earnest and heartfelt prayers are heard by our dear Savior and all the loved ones, it will end without injury to the cause which is so dear to our hearts. I have not been well the past few weeks, but I think it is all in consequence

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of the anxiety and wakeful hours that I have spent over this trouble, and I hope the Nile trip will be all I wish for.

I think of you and dear Mrs. Jordan oftener than you dream of. Scarcely a day passes but I feel [--it--] all [insert: it] means to you both, and I also include dear Knight, to see the vacant chair, the little playthings the reminders that never go away, of that dear precious child, and if I could in any way bring comfort to your hearts you can be assured that I would willingly make a great sacrifice to do so. But time alone can reconcile you, and I do not know that then reconciliation will come. It never has come to me, and never have I missed the strong protection of my dear husband more than I have during this trouble about Ross.

Let me assure you, dear friend, that I sympathize with you in the anxious hours you must have spent over the insubordination on the part of the Professors who have just resigned. I must say that I think you will be stronger and have better control over those Professors that are left than you have ever had before for they will realize that there is a supreme head above theirs in the Institution, for not one of them has the welfare and future good of the University at heart as you and I have. We are not anxious to promote and advance the professors in the opinion of the public, but we are anxious that they shall send forth grand men and women who have noble aims and high aspirations to benefit humanity.

I am, as ever in the past, your earnest friend and well-wisher,

Jane L. Stanford

THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY

Dated Cairo

To Jordan

Stanford University Cal

I decline to be further quoted in the Ross matter your knowledge of the man is sufficient to defend University

Stanford

CABLE MESSAGE THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. RECEIVED AT Stanford University, Cal FROM Naples, Jan. 14/1901 Jordan, Stanford University, Cal. Approve your act but deeply regret cause. Stanford

TERMS AND CONDITIONS [ on back side of preceding telegram]