Estate - conveyance of personal property to Board of Trustees, 1897

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

THAT I, Jane L. Stanford, of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, surviving widow of the late Leland Stanford, who departed this life on June 21st, 1893, do by these presents give, grant, transfer and convey unto Francis E. Spencer, of the City of San Jose, County of Santa Clara, State of California; Charles Goodall, Charles F. Crocker, Timothy Hopkins, Henry L. Dodge, Irving M. Scott, H.W. Harkness, Horace David and George E. Gray, all of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California; and John Boggs of the County of Colusa, State of California; Thomas B. McFarland, of the City and County of Sacramento, State of California; Isaac S. Belcher of the City of Marysville, State of California; N.W. Spaulding, of the City of Oakland, County of Alameda, State of California; William M. Steward, of the State of Nevada; Charles G. Lathrop, Edward R. Taylor, Joseph D. Grant and Leon Sloss, of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California; Josiah W. Stanford, of the County of Alameda, State of California; S.F. Lieb of San Jose, Santa Clara County, State of California; Frank Miller of the City and County of Sacramento, State of California; Horatio Stebbins of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California; Thomas Welton Stanford of Melbourne, Australia; and Russell J. Wilson, of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, as Trustees under the Grant founding and endowing the Leland Stanford Junior University, bearing date November 11th, 1885, and duly made, executed and acknowledged by Leland Stanford and myself, all the following personal property, that is to say-

The entire contents of every kind and character situate in my residence in San Francisco on the southwest corner of Powell and California Streets;

The entire contents of every kind and character situate in my residence at Palo Alto, California;

The entire contents of every kind and character situate in my residence in the City of Washington, District of Columbia, corner Seventeenth and K Streets.

BUT SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING EXPRESS PROVISIONS, that is to say:

I direct and authorize the said Trustees, after my departure from earthly life, and as soon as possible thereafter, to place and safely preserve in the Leland Stanford Junior Museum at Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California, all the following articles, which are in my San Francisco home, my home at Palo Alto, and my home in Washington, corner 17th and K Streets, which I now name and enumerate:

Paintings of every kind, copies as well as originals; water colors, etchings, photographs, mosaic pictures, pictures of all kinds, including family portraits all curios, all antiquities, mosaics of all kinds; malachite tables and articles of all kinds; onyx tables and articles of all kinds; vases, clocks, Venetian mirrors and glasses of all kinds; the large orchestrion and its rollers in the art gallery; all musical instruments; all pedestals, articles of virtu; works of art of every description, bronzes of every kind, marbles of every kind; all the library, books, maps, charts, manuscripts; also all the Elkington silver dinner service; all the Russian gold and silver table ornaments and service: gold and silver plate of all descriptions; all choice family silver ware and ornaments in my San Francisco

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home--the Trustees selecting such other silver as they might not deem advisable to place in the Museum, and divide the same among my own family relatives. I also wish the very choicest and finest cut glass service, and the very choicest and finest French and Vienna China table service selected by the Trustees and placed in the Museum, the balance of the China and glass not so selected to be divided among my own family relatives.

I direct that my dear sister Mrs. Helen Stanford and her daughter Gertrude Stanford shall select from my husband's, my son's and my own wearing apparel, and personal effects the house linen, lace and silk bedding, and any other articles of this or similar description, such as are suitable and interesting and deliver the same to the Trustees to be placed in the Museum. Any of the personal or other articles not selected for the Museum, I direct shall be divided and distributed among my own family relatives or be disposed of by Mrs. Helen Stanford and her daughter Gertrude, according to their judgment. I have perfect confidence that they will assume this responsibility with a delicacy that will be entirely to my satisfaction. I direct that none of these personal or other articles shall ever be sold.

There are many very choice articles, such as furniture, carpets, rugs, portiers, draperies, in my home in San Francisco, my home at Palo Alto and my home in Washinton, D.C. at the corner of K and 17th Streets; also other articles which will be very interesting when placed in the Museum, particularly the furniture in the Pompeiian and India rooms in my San Francisco home. All such articles of whatever description which would add to the interest of the Museum, I leave to be selected by the Trustees according to their good taste and wisdom and to be placed there by them.

In order to accommodate the articles above enumerated, two large additions will have to be added to the Museum, the plans for which are already drawn. This I now hope and expect to do myself; but, if not, I direct and authorize the Trustees to do this at their earliest opportunity, according to these plans, when the means to do so are obtainable, in order to have a place ready to receive these articles as quickly as possible, as I positively object to ever having my homes opened and exhibited to the public until everything above named has been removed.

And I hereby expressly and specifically reserve to myself the full power and authority to control give away, or otherwise dispose of, in such manner as may be agreeable to myself, during the remainder of my life, any and all of the articles of any kind or character or description, and wherever the same may be situate, at such time and under such conditions as may be acceptable to myself.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and seal at the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, this 11th day of February, A.D. 1897.

Jane L. Stanford (signature)

In presence of

Russell J. Wilson (signature)

Bertha Berner (signature)

James Mason (signature)

State of California, } City and County of San Francisco }ss.

On this Eleventh day of February in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety Seven: before me, JAMES MASON, A NOTARY PUBLIC, in and for the said City and County, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared Jane L. Stanford surviving widow of Leland Stanford, deceased known to me to be the person described in whose name is subscribed to and who executed the within and annexed instrument, and she duly acknowledged that she executed the same. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official Seal, the day and year in this Certificate first above written. James Mason (signature) Notary Public in and for the City and County of San Francisco, State of California.