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Wiota, Iowa, July 15, '89

Hon Leland Stanford
San Francisco, Cal

Dear Sir:-
When does your University begin work? If any documents containing information concerning it have yet been printed, please send them to me.
The strong and earnest desire and ambition of my life has been the securing of a thorough Collegiate education and though many causes have conspired to long delay its fulfillment, time but imparts greater strength and intensity and I can never rest content with anything short of its complete realization.

I am a native Californian but am at present visiting my parents who reside here. During the last year I have been preparing for College at the San Francisco Theological Seminary. I am a member of