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also types of the more important foreign groups in the [herbarium?]. It will be extremely difficult for the teacher to provide such a collection after his appointment to active work in the University as he will be so closely confined by his class-room duties, and it would be of very great assistance in making the opening of the University a success to have such a collection made before that time. I speak from experience, having been for the past ten years the professor of Botany in [the?] State University of Missouri

I would be glad to spend a year or more in collecting and am confident that if such an arrangement should be made it would result greatly to the advantage of the University. I have spent the past summer in making botanical collections and investigating the grasses of the Southwest territories for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That work is now nearly completed and I could enter upon work in California by the 15th [inst.?] Any inquiries which you may wish to make concerning

me may be addressed to Hon. Norman J. Calman commissioner of Agriculture Washington D.C. - Proctor J.H. Drummond or Prof. P. Schweitzer Columbia. [Mo?]- C.E. [Bessey?], Prof. of Botany State University Lincoln Neb. - C.L. Ingersoll, Pros. State [Agr'l?] College, [Fort?] [Callens?] Col. or Prof. Geo Hussmann, Napa, Cal. I hope that you may consider the matter favorably. My address for the present will be here. Very resp'y S.[M.?] Tracy

[Calistoga?] Nov 11 1885 To Leland Stanford I [will?] with great pleasure accept the appointment as trustee of your University and will do all in my power to aid in your great and noble work. I will be present at meeting of the trustees at your houses on Saturday [next?]. A.[L.?] Tubbs

University Southern California June 24, '89

Secy Faculty Dear Sir: When is Stanford Univ to open? I am very anxious to find out what is to be known of it. I should like to enter as soon as it is to be opened but if that is not to occur soon I must return to some Eastern institution.

Very Respy [O.A.?] [Turney?] Instr. Commercial Dept. U.S.C.