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three [illegible]. And Please write what the expense of the school an. I have your catalogue but it gives no terms.

I am Yours Truly Mrs. Henry Cilley

THE NEW DENISON, GEO. O. TAYLOR & CO. PROPRIETOR

Indianapolis Oct 20th 1888

Proff -- Leland University California

Sirs Please send me your Catilogue And oblige yours

Mr. Henry Cilley

Indianapolis, Ind

Henry T. Claghorn, Residence 1706 N. Sixteenth Street.

Office, 117 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Octr 30th, 1888

Hon Leland P. Sanford San Francisco Cal.

Dear Sir: Some days since having learned of your arrival in New York from Europe. supposed you would go direct to Washington & wrote, also wired you at that place inviting you to call & examine my Collection before you went West. Receiving no reply I immediately wrote you to the Windsor Hotel N. Y.

When you next pass through our city, it would afford me great pleasure if you would honor me with a call, I think I can show you one of the finest Collections in this Country comprised of Crystalized Minerals & Chemicals, Geological specimens, Birds, Shells, Corals, Ivories, Idols, Mosaics Gems & precious stones & a beautiful collection of agates & other polished stones - with elegant Glassware & valuable curios. This Collection has been my life work collected from all parts of the world and cannot be duplicated at any price. If you could instruct your private secty at Washington to call & make an examination & report to you I think it would prove greatly to your interest & this could be made the nucleus of one of the finest museum collections any where found & your magnificent institution, you are erecting, is just the place for it - Let me hear from you

Very Truly Yours

Henry Claghorn

San Jose Cal November 24th 1888

Hon Leland Stanford

Dear Sir You are doubtless flooded with letters from all sorts of persons with all sorts of requests personal to themselves.

This is not one of that class and I hope you will read it at your leisure and give it your careful consideration.

You do not remember me although I was introduced to some seventeen years ago by Senator Chas Maclay.

You are building up and will no doubt succeed in making the best educational institution in the world. People from all parts of the U. S. will come here to eduacte their children there. Only the other day

a lady of means, having two boys came here from Indianapolis [Ia?] and is awaiting the opening of the Leland Stanford Jr University. Several years ago in a lecture entitled "Problems of the Future" I suggested the need of a series of picture galleries to illustrate the evolution and progress of the earth, showing its advancement from the simplest beginnings in vegetable and animal life up to and including its present status. All people of intelligence and especially all scientists believe in "evolution," but so far as I know, there are no extensive illustrations of this gradual and steady upward progress. I have no clear cut and well defined idea or plan for such illustrations. In general