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San-Francisco April 27th 1887

Honorable Leland Stanford,

Dear Sir!

I take the liberty to send with this letter to you the copies of correspondance which I mailed to you in Washington on the 1st day of December 1885, but which you did not receive, as you told me the last time we met.

I hope that the letters of introduction from Gentlemen so respectable as well as my plans will reach their proper destination safely this time, also that your Honor will grant me a little of your valuable time and consider the earnestness and importance of my proposition and further, that you will honor me with an interview and thus enable me to tell you about another philanthropic purpose of great importance, which I would combine with my mission, should I be so happy as to receive it from you; a philathropic object, which should it be realized, will be a great blessing to thousands of suffering people who will pronounce your name every day with reverence and devotion.

As for my part, certainly, I shall consider

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