Memorials, 1905

the people of California and they deplore her tragic death and mourn her loss.

The Bohemian Club, interested so deeply with intellectual development of California and engaging the companionship of members of your faculty and alumni, hastens to speak its sympathy and testify to the magnitude of the Common bereavement.

I am very respectfully yours James D Phelan President

To David Starr Jordan President Leland Stanford Jr University

Johns Hopkins Medical School Baltimore March 1905

Dr. David Starr Jordan. President, Leland Stanford Junior University Palo Alto California.

Dear Dr. Jordan,-

Moved by a sorrow that fills the hearts of all Stanford men and women, a company of Stanford men in Baltimore wish to pronounce their sense of great bereavement in the loss of their benefactress and friend.

We not only extend our sympathy to you and all those actively connected with the university but express our own need of consolation. Well knowing

from the ripeness of Mrs. Stanford's years that the inevitable end, would perhaps come in a period not far distant, we had steeled ourselves in some measure to the contemplation of what would be a great blow. The awful suddenness however, of her departure and the distressing circumstances intensify our grief, and we shall constantly recall her life as a blessing, her acquaintance a benediction.

Yours respectfully,

Lillian E. Ray '97 Geo [B ?] Culver '97 J. F. Ortschild, '99 Harry E Wiel '00 C.M. Faris '00 P. [?] Gelman '01 H Leslie Langnecker '01 Andre E. Lee '02 Frederic W. Bancroft '02 Frank [Hinman?] Fred F. [Gundman?] 03 R.P. Cowles '99 R.K. Culver '99

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MEMORIAL

In fulfilling the plan conceived at the founding of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Jane Lathrop Stanford as the surviving founder showed splendid ability to achieve and wise forethought in times of doubt. Her self-sacrificing spirit, her unfailing devotion to the noble work which has crowned her life, and her true Christian courage, were an ever-present example to the men and women whose lives were broadened through her generosity and that of her honored husband Leland Stanford

As a tribute to the memory of Jane Lathrop Stanford and as an expression of sorrow at her death, this memorial is inscribed to her name by the numbers of the Stanford Club of Puget Sound

By Milner Roberts

Scott Calhoun

Paul C. Harper

Seattle, Washington

March the eighth

1905.

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Milwaukee Wis Mar 5th 1905

David. S. Jordan Palo Alto Cal

Dear Sir

I write to ask if the Late Mrs Leland Stanford has made any mention to you or made any Provision in her will for me, Austin Joseph Browne I was told by the Late Mrs Stanford to write you, if any thing Should happen to her, and as I see by the Papers that She died under very suspicious circumstances in Hawaii, I am very sorry that I cannot give you any further information at Present or of this writing May I ask that you send me a photo of Mrs Stanford as I would like it to compare with one