Correspondence (incoming) - W-Z

Paris, le 15 février 1889 31 rue Dumont Durville

Dear Sir I hear that your friend Mr. Stanford is going to found a University on a large scale at San Francisco. One of my colleagues of the French Institute, Mr. Paul Viollet, has asked me to inform you, that, should it [suit?] Mr. Stanford's views, he would be inclined to accept in the New University a professorship of History of Law. Mr. Viollet is a very learned and distinguished man, and was elected Member of the Institute a short time ago. Should you wish to communicate with him his [direction?] is, rue Soufflot, 2 [bis?]. I had some hesitation in troubling you about a matter of this kind, but Miss King, my [sister?] in law, encouraged me to write to you. Believe me Very truly yours W.W. [Wadington?] French Ambassador in London

Boston, April 25th, 1885

Dear Senator Stanford: Accept my [thanks?] for your letter of yesterday, with the very [handsome?] check which your liberality [prompted?] you to enclose. I have the pleasure of [?] you [yesterday?] morning. [That?] I should be back in the U.S. and [head?] to [state?] [of?] California [Aug?]

Francis A. Walker

20[th?] [?] [Mrs.?] Stanford [?] will have a pleasant trip and a safe arrival [at?] the further [shore?] Truly Yours [Francis?] A. Walker

Hon Leland Stanford N.Y.

103 Montgomery St. Nov 28th 1888 Senator Stanford Dear Sir: I chanced to prepare an article upon the Leland Stanford Junior University which was printed in a little pamphlet, a copy of which I sent to the editor of the Century Magazine with the request that I be allowed to prepare something upon the same subject for [them?]. In reply

the editor writes me that he would be pleased to read something of the [sort?] from me. Mr.Lathrop was very kind in aiding me in my work,and is desirous that I should meet you or Mrs. Stanford before preparing my work. But, realising the fact that public [men?] ought to have some rights of privacy which people should respect, I am extremly diffident about invading yours