Correspondence with A. L. Tubbs

[The Western Union Telegraph Company]

11/11/1885

San Francisco

A.L. Tubbs

Will you accept appointment as trustee of the University which I am creating will you be present at a meeting of the trustees to be held at my house in San Francisco Saturday next Nov. Fourteenth

Leland Stanford

San Franciso, Nov. 10, 1885

Mr. Alfred L. Tubbs,

Napa,

Dear Sir:

Will it be agreeable to you to be named as trustee of the University which I am creating?

A meeting of the trustees will be held at my house, in San Francisco, on Saturday next, the 14th inst. at 12 o’clock. I shall be pleased to have you present.

Yours truly,

Leland Stanford