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Introduction letter to judge Lorenzo Sawyer from Judge James D. Thornton.

San Francisco, November 16th., 1885.

Hon. Lorenzo Sawyer,

Dear Sir:-

This will be handed to you by my friend, Doctor Max Axelrood, who desires to have some conversation with you in regard to Governor Stanford and the Institution of learning he desires to establish.

Dr. Axelrood is a man of good character and a physician of learning. He will explain to you what he desires. Please aid him as far as you can.

Very Respectfully Yours,

James D. Thornton.

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Endorsement of above letter by Judge Sawyer to Governor L. Stanford.

San Francisco, November 17th., 1885.

Hon. Leland Stanford,

Dear Sir:-

I have received the enclosed [insert] this [/insert] morning from Judge James D. Thornton, of the Supreme Court, and I respectfully refer it to you for consideration.

Respectfully Yours,

Lorenzo Sawyer.

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Introduction letter to Senator L. Stanford, from H. I. Thornton, Esq., December 1st., 1885.

San Francisco, December 1st., 1885.

Hon. Leland Stanford, U.S. Senate,

Dear Sir:-

I have known for several years past in this city Dr. Max Axelrood. He has been engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery while here. He is a gentleman of good character and of cultivated talents, and has been entertained at the homes of respectable people and associates with them as their equals.

He is a Russian by birth and is thirty-six years of age. He speaks and writes the German, French, Polish and English languages as well as his own. He was educated at the Universities of Heidelberg in Germany, and at the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia. He served as surgeon in the Prussian army in the Franco-Prussian war and in the Russian army in the Russian-Turkish war.

He is a gentleman of industry and prudent habits and of active intellect, and is well versed in current history and affairs. As a student and a resident of this state, he has taken a deep interest in your magnificent gift to the people and coming generation, and is anxious to be employed by you as one of the commissioners to examine and report under the institutions of learning in the old world to the end that the most useful elements in them tried and established systems may be fairly submitted to your judgment.

I think that he would be valuable for you in that capacity and I would commend him to your consideration.

I remain, Yours Most Truly,

Harry I. Thornton.

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Letter sent by me to Senator Leland Stanford, December 1st., 1885, to Washington, with the introduction letter from H. I. Thornton.

San Francisco, December 1st., 1885.

Hon. Leland Stanford,

Dear Sir:-

You will doubtless remember an interview kindly granted by you to me in this city on November 17th. at which I presented letters from Judges Sawyer and Thornton. I now take the liberty of sending you the accompanying plans more fully explaining the matter, which I hope you will do me the honor to give your personal consideration at an early date.

Very Respectfully, your obedient servant,

Max Axelbrood M.D.

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To Governor and Mrs. Stanford,

Founders of the Leland Stanford, Jr., University.

Dear Sir and Madam:-

I beg leave to submit for your consideration the following suggestions touching the success of the great school of learning which your beneficience is about to inaugurate.

As it is designed to be as lasting as the state [insert notation: 3] and [insert notation: 2] and [--the--] national [insert notation: 1] governments, and as the munificence of it its endowment promises a growth of the University commensurate with that of the American population, the extent of its growth and influences will depend largely upon the wisdom of its early directions.

A grateful people hope to see this University fruitful of happy results during the continuance of the natural lives of its honored founders. In order to avoid mistakes, as well as to profit by the experience of other Universities, those having the practical direction of the building and conduct of the Leland Stanford, Jr., University might profitably be possessed of the experiences of centuries to serve as hints for their guidance in adapting this institution to the spirit of the age and to the wants of the American people according to the wishes of its founders.

To this end, I beg respectfully to suggest that inquiry be made into and report made upon the history and present condition of the leading universities and institutions of learning in America and Europe, as to such matters, for instance, as:

First:- The style, size, plans aqnd relative situations of the buildings and their various appurtenances;

Second:- Their libraries, extent, variety and character of books and their modes of administering them;

Third:- The value or extent of their respective funds, incomes and revenues, mode of investments;

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To Governor and Mrs. Stanford,

Founders of the Leland Stanford, Jr., University.

Dear Sir and Madam:-

I beg leave to submit for your consideration the following suggestions touching the success of the great school of learning which your beneficience is about to inaugurate.

As it is designed to be as lasting as the state [insert notation: 3] and [insert notation: 2] and [--the--] national [insert notation: 1] governments, and as the munificence of it its endowment promises a growth of the University commensurate with that of the American population, the extent of its growth and influences will depend largely upon the wisdom of its early directions.

A grateful people hope to see this University fruitful of happy results during the continuance of the natural lives of its honored founders. In order to avoid mistakes, as well as to profit by the experience of other Universities, those having the practical direction of the building and conduct of the Leland Stanford, Jr., University might profitably be possessed of the experiences of centuries to serve as hints for their guidance in adapting this institution to the spirit of the age and to the wants of the American people according to the wishes of its founders.

To this end, I beg respectfully to suggest that inquiry be made into and report made upon the history and present condition of the leading universities and institutions of learning in America and Europe, as to such matters, for instance, as:

First:- The style, size, plans aqnd relative situations of the buildings and their various appurtenances;

Second:- Their libraries, extent, variety and character of books and their modes of administering them;

Third:- The value or extent of their respective funds, incomes and revenues, mode of investments;

Fourth:- The number of professors and teachers, their salaries and compensation;

Fifth:- The branches of learning taught in each and the ones most prominent

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