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THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY
NUMBER [L?] / SENT BY [Gr?] / REC'D BY D / CHECK 91 D H Pass
Received at 8H00 Apl 13 [in another hand, notation: 1891]
Dated Mentlo Park Calif 13
To Prof David S Jordan
I wish to leave you entirely free [illegible] your selections of Professors but I suggest that for the present some of the different Branches might be consolidated under the management of a single man as we cannot be fairly prepared to take
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THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY
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care of the number of students necessary to give reasonable employment to so large a number of Professors as you suggest my idea is that fifteen Professors and Teachers ought to be sufficicent to open with I shall be glad to see you out here at your earliest convenience
Leland Stanford
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THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY
NUMBER [L?] / SENT BY [Gr?] / REC'D BY D / CHECK 17 D H
Received at 90[2 A?] May 9 1891
Dated Menlo Park Calif 9
To David S Jordan
We have decided to name the Boys Dormitory Encina Hall Encina being the Spanish for live oak
Leland Stanford
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THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY
NUMBER [L?] / SENT BY [K?] / REC'D BY D / CHECK 53 D H
Received at 915 A May 16 1891
Dated Mentlo Park Calif 16
To David S Jordan
I approve proof sheets of your Prospectus but have decided to name the Dormitaries after live oak and white oak which are the principal natural trees in this Valley, for the boys dormitary {Escina Hall} and for the girls dormitory {Robles Blancho Hall} being the Spanish names for live oak and white oak
Leland Stanford
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THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY
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NUMBER [L?] / SENT BY [Gr?] / REC'D BY M / CHECK 10 D H
Received at 751a May 21 1891 [in another hand, notation: 1891]
Dated Mentlo Park Calif 20
To David S. Jordan
We will have accommaditions for eighty girls by October first
Leland Stanford
