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Hon Leland Stanford
Dear Sir.

Although your remarkable speech, as reported in the Evening Post, was delivered in Chico on Oct 6th. I have been waiting in vain, expecting to find some newspaper comments thereon, This is not - I am sure from lack of appreciation, but from the haste with which events follow one another, and the rapidity of the news - [gather?], who cannot long dwell with the past. But however that may be, I think your remarks on that occassion deserve special mention, they are full of the largest humanity.
"The possibilities of humanity are the realization of the beneficience of the Creator" - you would "raise the condition of the people" - you hope "the Institution at Palo Alto will be an Educator of Educators." These are not thoughtless, or idle words. God bless you, sir, for their utterance. Little could be nobler than these sentiments.
But what particularly impressed me were your opening remarks. "Gov Bidwell has alluded to the accumulating wealth. As to this let me say that I have never known what it was to have enough to carry out the work I have planned. I do not value money for itself, but for what it can accomplish"
Coming from the lips of some person of