Correspondence (incoming) - T-V

a thought that would hush the everlasting quarrel between capital + labor if it were rightly appreciated.

[I] [am] [thanking] [you] [for] [your?] [speech?] which is all the more powerful because you have by the building of a university + other generosities proved [your] earnestness in Educational affairs

I am [yours?] [??] T. DeWitt Talmage

April 3, 1890 Hon Leland Stanford [Dear?] Senator

Hearty thanks [for?] your speech on Education! It is a wonderful presentation of new facts and important ideas which would be revolutionary [for?] good if all could read them. The one sentence which says "that the beneficence of God is not that the wealth of one man in so manner implies the poverty of another", is

Woodside, Cal. April 19, 1890 Hon Leland Stanford My Dear Sir After all that has been said by Mr.Huntington, and after all that has been published in the columns of the Chronicle; it is my sincere belief that the Resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of the Southern Pacific Co, on [Thusday?], are nothing more than a fair expression of the sentiment of [of?] the people of this State. And allow me to say, that I only give expression to the public sentiment of this community, should I propose your name for the highest honor within the gift of the American people Believe me Yours very truly R.[O.?] Tripp

Hon [Leland?] Stanford Dear Sir The undersigned an old Employee of the C.P.R.R. desires to secure a position as Pumper in the Track Dept or as [Watchman?], of the S.P. Co but lacks the Influence which is needed to secure it, unless I can enlist yours. I first entered the Employ of the Co in the fall of 1865, on a Construction Train where I remained until we were replaced by Chinamen, when I went to the front, and worked under Mr. Strobridge in the vicinity of Gold Run, and Atlas. In 1871 I was working for the Contract [and?] Finance Co, and at [Healdsburg?] was seriously injured

you were kind enough at that time to procure for me a position under the late A.J.Stevens as Watchman in charge of C.P. Fire Dept at the Sacramento Shops, where I remained nearly two years making a good Record I believe. But my system becoming filled with malaria I was obliged to resign on account of my health, to recover [which?]. I went into the Mountains and went into mining and remained there until about 15 months since, when rheumatism compelled me to change Climate again. Early last May I reentered the employ of the S.P. Co. under Mr. W.B. Smith, Freight Agt at Oakland. The labor was too severe and Mr.Smith procured for me a place as Watchman at 1st [?] [Mkt?] St Oak under Mr. A.D. Wilder, this was not an all year 'round place and during the Winter I was thrown out of employment. In Feb and March I procured some work under Mr.D.D. McWade, as Extra