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[Office of Popular Science Monthly]

New York, 9 March 1889

Hon. Leland Standord:

Dear Sir,

I have just
learned that my friend, Prof.
C. Hanford Henderson, of the
Philadelphis Manual Reauning
School, is a candidate for the chair
of Physics in the University which
you have so munificently
endowed on the Pacific Coast.
Partly from my regard for the
man, + not less from my
interest in the cause of liberal
education, I venture to commend
his application to your thoughtful
attention.

For proof of Prof. Henderson’s
ability as an instructir, one only
needs to meet his class in the
school already named, as I have