Correspondence (outgoing)

Sacramento Dec 24 1865

My Dear Mother

It is a good while since I have written you. On this Sunday afternoon I have been thinking of the days that are past of all the kindness of both parents for their children How many sacrifices you have made for us all and comparatively how little we have been able to make return. Charles has the advantage of the east in having you with him and being able daily to care for and add to your happiness for the past two years. I have been anticipating that the opportunity would soon come when I could make you a visit but the demands of business have hitherto forbid until now there does not seem any certainty

that for a long time to come there will be any help demand for my remaining here. Still it is possible that i may drop in upon you before a great while. I would like to see you all very much. Charles Jane Eleza and the children as well as yourself. Tomorrow will be Christmas. It would be very pleasant to wish you a merry Christmas and help make it so. I would if you have good sleighing how I would like to take you out for a good ride all over the old familiar roads. Where the opportunity occurs I shall be sure to do it.

Josiah and Phillip are in San Francisco. They with their families are well as if mine. Jennie and Anna Maria

send their love and kind greetings for all. They are anxious to know when I can take them home but I can give them no very definite idea. The building of a Rail Road over the Sierra Nevada Mountains with as much rapidity as possible is an enterprise that is very exacting in its requirements of time. For the present and until the Orad is complete I expect to be where business seems most to require my presence.

I know not when it will be permitted that I shall see you again but my dear mother always believe it my strong wish and always believe that my love for you is as strong and stronger than in my young days when I could not so well appreciate your worth

and your devotion to your children. It makes me sad to think that in your declining years but one can be we as to you to winter this regard. If I am able to visit you during this year I shall hope to have you return with me. At the most favorable season of the year I think you would enjoy the passage out and I am sure that once here we could make your stay happy. I hope you will think favorable of coming out for I hope to make the request. Good bye now from your affectionate Son

Leland Stanford

Office Central Pacific Railroad, Corner Front and California Streets.

San Francisco April 22d 1867

Dear Judge

Your despatch saying " Charles & Hopkins opposed to any outside operation by either of us" [etc?]. It is not a question of an outside operation by either you or myself except as they may force us into the position. M have made a trade with their consent in which they with us were to be equally entrusted now they are unwilling to carry out the trade. I consider all are bound in honor to stand by that trade. But certainly you and I cannot escape in honor if we can legally. That Mr [Laghlin?] has assumed obligations in consequence of the trade more strongly urges us to go out and [perfect?] it as far as in our power or suffer an imputation that we cant afford to bear however good we may know our intentions to have been. It is not