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Visalia. July. 18. Govenor Stanford.
Dear Sir. Would you please be kind enough to let me know when your school will open. Would you please let me know the cost. I am a widow and my means are limited. I would like to send my little son. Would there be any [show?] for me to get a place as house keeper, or matron I am a middle aged
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lady. And good housekeeper. And can give best of references. Would you please answer at an early date. I remain. Very respectfully.
Mrs D. Patterson. Visalia California.
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Oakland Pier
June 4/89
M D Bornek Esq.
Dear Sir,
I will not put in writing what I wished to ask you this morning at the Pier, which is as follows. Can you give me any information in regard to entering a scholar at the Leland Stanford University. I have a nephew, Drury E Garratt, 25 years of age who for the past
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year has been attending the Crawford Training School in Oakland, who wishes to enter the Stanford University as soon as possible. If you will inform me what would be the best course for him to persue, in order to accomplish his purpose you will oblige me very much.
Your Truly
J L Pereau
1462 - 9th St
Oakland.
P.S. Mr Crawford of the school he is now attending can be refferred to in regard to his character and ambition to learn.
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San Francisco, January 24th 1885
No 211 Lausanne St.
Hon. Leland Stanford,
Dear Sir,
Learning through the daily newspaper that you have it in contemplation to establish an educational institution of the highest order, I beg leave to ask your attention to one matter connected with its general scope and plan, which if adopted and fully carried out, would vastly increase the practical benefit of such an institution, and would soon render it, in its direct usefulness to the country, the foremost institution in the United States, - not excepting, in my opinion, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, or any other of the leading colleges or universities in the country.
To state my suggestion at the outset; - it is, in its most general form, as follows: - that in your institution a Department should be establishing for giving full, complete, exhaustive instruction in everything which makes