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PACIFIC RURAL PRESS

Office, 220 Market Street. Elevator, 12 Front Street.

Illustrated Weekly, $3.00 a year.

Established 1870.

DEWEY & CO., PUBLISHERS,

A. T. DEWEY. W. B. EWER

San Francisco, May 18 1889

Hon. Leland Stanford,

Dear Sir:

We enclose herewith a letter from one of our readers, seeking information with regard to the Leland Stanford, Jr. University. We are receiving quite a number of such communications, from time to time, and would be glad of some brief statement from you to publish for the satisfaction of such inquiries. It would oblige both them and

Your Very Respy

The Editors P.R.P.[Pacific Rural Press.]

per Boyd

OFFICE OF

Leland Stanford Jr. University.

P. O. ADDRESS :

MAYFIELD,

Santa Clara Co., Cal.

Palo Alto, May 8th 1889.

Mr. H. C. Nash,

Palo Alto,

Cal.

Dear Sir:-

I refer the attached communication of Mr. Carl H. Park of Newton, Mass. to you.

Yours respectfully

H. G. Snyder,

Clak

Newton Mass. May 1st 1889 Leland Stanford Jr. University, Palo Alto, Cala.

Gentlemen,

We have in our posession a set of the "Mecanique Ceteste" by La Place and translated by Nathaniel Bawditch L.L.D. late of Cambridge. It belonged to the library of my brother in law Charles W. Tuttle at one time a professor in the Cambridge Observatory. We wish to dispose of them to the best advantage as part of his library, and so that they will be of the most benefit to the greatest number of people. As but few copies are to be had I take the liberty of laying this subject before you. They are in the best of order. We would be pleased to have you examine them and also