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Brookline, Mass. 14th July, 1889

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The Hon. Leland Stanford,

Dear Sir: We are completing and expect to send in a day or two the last of the series of working drawings for the grading of the streets and approaches of the university
prepared under your instructions of last Fall.

Among them there will be the drawings for the terrace walls north of Garden Avenue designed with a view to the use of a good deal of irregular stone struck off the blocks sit in the buildings.

We have today received a note from the Engineer reporting that grading operations are expected to begin tomorrow and to be prosecuted rapidly. But he adds that you have expressed a doubt about adhering to the plan in respect to the panels for shrubbery and an intention to write to us on the subject. We think we should advise you without delay that a