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Spiegel Grove
Freemont O.
12 Dec 1883

My Dear Governor:
I yesterday read in the San
Francisco "Spirit of the Times" the first full
account I have seen of your matchless
gift to the cause of Education. I can
not resist the impulse to thank you and
to congratulate you. I need not try to express
the admiration felt for you and for your work
by all good and thoughtful friends of free insti-
tutions. All see who read your deed of Trust
that the Leland Stanford Junior University
will have the amplest Endowment ever known;
that it will be non-sectarian; and that it
will furnish industrial education to its students.
All of those features will command the approval
of the intelligent and judicious. The last
mentioned, viz, manual training I rejoice to