Correspondence (incoming) - Ba-Bl

branches than Art are taught and want to bring my nephew a boy of 14 yrs with me to educate. I have spent many years in the study of music also and am a vocalist, but prefer to teach the branches spoken of - please send me a Circular in regard to this College, as we have read of it and its donors, and want to hear more. I am [?] Yours [?] M. Louise Bentley this is my P.O. address

Leland Stanford Jr. University Palo Alto, May 9th, 1889

Mr. [H.C.?] Nash Palo Alto, Cal. Dear Sir:The enclosed communication of M. Louise Bentley is refered to you. Yours respectfully [H.G.?] Snyder

Placerville Cal, Nov. 13,1888 Mr. Leland Stanford Dear Sir. I have two boys, aged 19 and 17 years that I would like to send to school. Will you please inform me on what terms they could enter your school - if it is yet opened. Owing to ill health I recently quit the [newspaper?] business in St.Peter. Minn. and came here. They were [typists?] in my office and here they cannot find work and would like to go to a good school. As I have only a small pension and have four other children to support, it is necessary to get the boys into as cheap a school as possible. By permission I refer to Col. J.K. Moore, private secretary to Gov. McGill, St.Paul, or to Hon. [?] Frasier Senator elect, from El Dorado county. Respectfully Yours John [Blackiston?]

Law office of William Blakie (Com'r of U.S. Ct. of Claims) 206 Broadway, New York, May 9th 1889

Dear Professor [Andrews?], I want you to kindly show Principal Philips of the State normal school at Westchester Pa and his friends your [favored?] (and justly [favored?]) gymnasium, and whatever you think will interest them not forgetting the [?] school. And any other [courtesy?] from you will be fully appreciated by them and by Your friend W.Blakie

Prof. [Andrews?] [?] Ca [?]

[?] who is now in California you may therefore [have?] an opportunity to see him and ascertain from him personally as to my ability as a teacher and my character in general. Also to Prof. [E.R.?] Ruggles, Prof of Modern Languages, and Dean of the Chandler Scientific School connected with Dartmouth College. Prof. A.S. Hardy, the author, and Prof. of Mathematics in D.C., Prof. A.E. [Dolbear?], Prof. of Physics in [Tufts?] College

Hanover [?] April 30, 89 Hon Leland Stanford Dear Sir Your name has been given me by Robert Douglas [Esq.?] of Frankegan Ill. as the proper person to whom to apply for information in regard to the Leland Stanford Jr. University I would like to be considered a candidate