Will, holograph copy of 1899 will (in Jane Stanford's handwriting), 1899

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aforesaid.

I give and bequeath to my friend Russell J. Wilson, and my brother Charles Gardner Lathrop, the sum of Twenty Four Thousand Dollars in gold coin in trust to hold, manage, invest and reinvest Twelve Thousand Dollars ($12,000) thereof for and during the life of Merinda Lathrop of Van Hornsville, Herkimer County, New York State, and to pay over and deliver to her use monthly, and every month, as long as she lives, the interest, income, rents and profits of the said Twelve Thousand Dollars ($12,000). Also to hold, manage invest and reinvest the remaining Twelve Thousand Dollars ($12,000) for and during the natural life of Mrs James Covert of Albany, New York State, and to pay over and deliver to her use monthly, and every month, the interest, income, rents and profits of the said Twelve Thousand Dollars ($12,000). The estate and trust of the said Russell J. Wilson and Charles Gardner Lathrop in the said several principle sums to

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my dear husbands and my sons Leland Stanford Junior to be distributed by my brother Charles Gardner Lathrop according to his best judgement between himself and his daughter Jennie Stanford Lathrop.

The wardrobe of my dear son Leland Stanford Junior and my husbands I desire my brother Charles G. Lathrop to dispose of according to

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instruction by private letter from me.

I give and bequeath to my brother Charles G. Lathrop, all such silver plate as is not mentioned as having already been given to the Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, and by them to be placed in the Museum connected with said University.

All silver in the house corner Powell and California Sts. San Francisco, California, and in my country home on the Palo Alto Farm, Santa Clara Co. all the Elkington silver dinner set and ornaments, gold plated service, dinner plates, gold Russian spoons salt cellers, egg cups, special gifts of affection from my husband, and other silver, are designated already in a deed of gift to the Trustees, also all the works of art, paintings, curios, china of rare quality, photographs, rare old furniture, vases, clocks statues of all kinds, marbles bronzes mosaics of all kinds; marble busts, already

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given to the Trustees from my home in Washington City D.C. Palo Alto Farm, and San Francisco also included and to be placed in the Museum as aforesaid named.

I give and bequeath to my brother Charles G. Lathrop my private car "Stanford."

All the rest and residue of my property and estate of every kind and nature and wherever situated not hereinbefore disposed of, I give devise and bequeath to the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University as founded and endowed by my husband and myself by our joint grant of November Eleventh 1885, recorded in the County of Santa Clara, in Liber 83, of Deeds at page 23 et seq. to have and to hold to the said Trustees and to their Successors forever as an integrel part of the endowment of the said University upon the trust that the principle thereof shall forever remain intact, and that the rents, issues and profits thereof shall be

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devoted to the maintenance of said University for the uses and purposes and upon the trusts in the said grant, and to which the endowment made by said grant is devoted.

I desire and again request of the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, that they shall, as soon as possible, place and safely preserve in the Museum of the University, all articles which I have given them from my homes mentioned only excepting what is given to my brother Charles G. Lathrop.

All the books in my homes; all periodicals, all things suitable for a library, I desire the Trustees to place, as soon as possible, in the new library building connected with the University.

The ivory painted breastpin surrounded with small brilliants picture of my son, and one of the same of my Mother and another with large diamonds surrounding it of my husband, I desire shall

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