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branches are greatly neglected or not taught at all in the medical schools in our city.

9 / The philosophical, chemical and astronomical appartus of each and the plan and facilities chracterizing the administration of the same.

10 / To report the prevailing opinions of the most advanced thinkers, teachers, philosophers and scholars upon the new and mooted questions of the day, and many more matters in the same line of inquiry which will suggest themselves to your minds.

Much of the knowledge proposed to be obtained by such inquiry and report would be useful if not indispensable in framing the plan and fixing the relative locality of the buildings you propose to erect.

With the best ability, advantages and zeal in one intrusted with this great mission it would require some time to gather the information, and in order to avoid missteps, the inquiry should commence as soon as possible among the schools and universities of the world, as for instance those of: Paris, London, Vienna,

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St. Petersburg, Moscow, Helsingfors, Berlin, Stockham, Heidelberg, Bonn, Strassburg, Dublin etc., any or all of them, as might be found practicable or advisable.

I have a personal acquaintance with several of the Universities above mentioned and the professors thereof; am possessed of a knowledge of the following languages viz. Russian, Polish, German, French, some Spanish and Italian which would facilitate my intercourse and corresponence with them, should I be intrusted with such mission from the honored founders of the "Leland Stanford Jr." University.

With my best wishes for the success of this great school during the lives of its founders, and for their continued health and happiness, and that they may live to see it flourish I am

with profound respect

Very truly

Max Axelrood M.D.

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Honourable 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 J.D. Thornton. I now take the liberty of sending the accompanying plans, more fully explaining the matter, which I hope you will do me the honour to give your personal consideration

Very respectfully, Your obediant servant

Max Axelrood M.D.

December 1st 1885

San-Francisco 526 Kearny str.

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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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the day I shall see my name connected with the establishment of the "Leland Stanford Junior University", the happiest of my life.

Yours

most obedient

Max Axelrood M.D.

215 Kearny str.