Correspondence (incoming) - G

Hon L. Stanford U.S. Senate Palo Alto Cal

April 13, '91 My dear Sir: I received the enclosed this morning and after some misgivings concluded the only proper [disposition?] of it was to send it to you. Father Casanova speaks strongly and it may be it might be well [since?] [enquiry?] should be made into the matters to which he refers. Very truly yours [John?] Gibbon

Marysville, Tuesday A.M. Oh dear Governor - it's no go! - This place has snubbed me the worst of all - A thin house A cold house - stupidly unresponsive in fact. So utterly was all sustaining sympathy lacking, that I was far more exhausted after the lecture than after my entertainment at your house. In fact there was no one here to the least interest in the lecture

no one to [nitroduce?] [some?] or speak a word to [them?] [after?] the between. They [regaled?] [them?] with [story?] [after?] silence - [one?] [kept?] [it?] up. [With?] [firm?] [determination?]. [?] [and?] "[screwed?] [my?] enough up to the [sticky?] point," and did my very best - especailly in the sad parts of the [feature?]. I felt them. When I pictured the baby, dying of cough, I [flatter?] myself I [produced?] some effect [:?] one woman [put?] the corner of her handkerchief to her eye - and one man blew his nose. I enclose a specimen - the best of the [?] [notices?] [?] I shall [?] - feel like [putting?] that up - as I am only losing money, time, strength and temper. Of course I shall not risk [another?] [feature?] in Sacramento unless I can be in come way, [ensured?] [a?] [?]. I shall

go back to San Francisco and settle down to [writing?]. I don't believe the [personations?] would be successful except as a fun [entertainment?] with [change?] [pacific?] [through?] [it?] - by some such [precious?] [friend?] as you. Please send any letters that may [come?] to [me?] this week to [Chian?] [care?] of [Jr.?] [Bidwell?]. Love to all under your roof. If [everybody?] should [treat?] me as kindly as you do, I [might?] be spoiled in my old age. I am getting [discplined?]. Gratefully yours - Grace

San Diego, Calif., Oct, 12-'91 To Hon. Leland Stanford, San Francisco My Dear Sir: I write to introduce to you tthe Rev.[?] B.Noble, D.D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of San Diego, who feels a deep interest in the cause of higher education. Some of our San Diego youth are among the students who matriculated at the opening of your university, and there are others preparing to enter next year. We know them well, and can say that they give promise of a creditable record as students and of useful and honorable lives. And now let me say that words cannot express the delight with which Mrs. Gunn and myself read the account of the Opening Ceremonies. In these days of flippant agnosticism and of infidel pretentions to science, it was truly refreshing