Correspondence (incoming) - Sp-St

Box 24 East Las Vegas New Mexico May 28th 89

Mr. H.C. Nash Secy. [Board?] of Trustees Leland Stanford Jr. University

Dear Sir: Yours of 22[nd?] received this morning. May I ask of you the favor to inform me where the Faculty will be appointed, and when the University will be opened! Also to send me copy of any announcement or plan of the University you may have in print? I would like to inform myself more fully in regard to the general [scheme?], plan of organization, etc. Very [?] [Alex?] P. Stewart

Emmetsburg, Iowa July 29/89

Hon Leland Stanford San Francisco Cal Dear Sir: Permit [me?] to address you seeking [some?] information. Many months ago I [made?] a [complete?] description of the University which you were building as a monument to your son, and may I inquire is it open for students? I have a brother 20 years of age, a resident of [?] and has taken two years in college, but would like to finish in your University

[financially?] [work?] soon, but ambitious and ardent admirer of an education. My brother is honest, strong, industrious and healthy, and is willing to do any thing that is honorable in order to secure an education. Please send me your catalogue, and state if you think a young man could get any assistance in [source?] form, whereby he could help himself along in school, any information you can give me will be thankfully [read?] Very Truly [Geo?] [Stickuly?] Jr.

Stockton Cala May 4th 1885 Hon. Leland Stanford; Dear Sir;Various leading journals have recently given currency to the statement that you intend to devote a portion of your great fortune to the promotion of charitable and educational institutions for the good of your fellow citizens of California, that they may hold your name in grateful remembrance as a benefactor of mankind. In furtherance of this idea we would respectfully suggest to your favorable consideration an institution which in every respect is a public benefaction and which to accomplish its purpose needs the assistance of some such

public spirit as yourself. We have in Stockton a "Free Public Library" an institution which has already done much general good and of which our citizens are justly proud; but we labor under the great disadvantage of being without a public building of any kind for its accommodation. One of our deceased citizens has left a legacy of Five Thousand Dollars toward that purpose. The [laity?] will give us a lot, and it is our especial desire to raise money enough to erect a building suitable for such a purpose. The [laity?] of Stockton has now a debt of our $300,000 on an assured valuation of $8,000,000 and is limited by law to the assessment of one percent aside from school purposes and