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San Jose, March 3rd, 1905.
Dear Doctor Jordan:-
Thanks for your courteous note just receiv-
ed. It was not that I shrank from the duty or the responsibility,
but that I wished to open the way for any other arrangement you
might think well to make.
Of course, I shall lay aside the sermon I purposed to give, and simply
try to enter into sympathy with the occasion, and to pay such a trib-
ute to the memory of Mrs. Stanford as may come from one outside of
her circle of special friends. I shall try to utter in a modest
way the voice of the general public.
I shall not require much time, and if it is desired that you, or any
other, shall speak, I shall not be in the way.
With high regard and all good wishes, I am,
Sincerely yours,
John W Dinsmore