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by no desire to secure by favor any position in the University higher than my qualifications and experience would warrant, but rather by the assurance that my personal desire to serve the Institution cannot fail of a hearing on its merits; and, further, I am more than pleased with your grand opportunity to assist in giving shape and effectiveness to so noble a benefaction to mankind.

I do not fully remember what I said on the Library subject in my former letter. The more I thought about it, the more I was impressed that the comparative isolation of Palo Alto would make it quite important that a reference library of some dimensions should be available at the opening of the first department. I finally wrote this view to Senator Stanford, at Washington, with an offer to make such collection of books, here