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Metropolitan Museum of Art,

Central Park,

Fifth Avenue and Eighty-Second St.

New York, March 24 1885

My Dear Governor

I herewith enclose for Mrs Stanford, in case she had not seen it yet, an excellent article which appeared in today's Herald and which set matters right. Your remarks about grasping lawyers is a very correct one indeed, and your intention as sketched in the Herald's interview of administering yourself as long as you live the portion of your estate which you will devote for beneficent purposes, is the very wisest thing you possibly can do. I would go still farther, and appoint those who will take care of your great gift after you and Mrs Stanford have gone to rest. The Lenox Library is managed in such a way that the family, relatives, or friends of the Donator keep a control of it in their own hands and carry out exactly the intentions of the testator just as if he were still alive

Present my best regards to Mrs Stanford and believe me

Sincerely Yours

L P di Cesnola