Eadweard Muybridge to David Starr Jordan, 1892-04-05

Room 755 Palace Hotel San Francisco, Cal.

5 April 1892

My dear Sir

A conversation which I, this morning had with one of the trustees of your University, has led me to question the advisability of my coming to Palo Alto, prepared to give a lecture on the science of animal locomotion, without first having received a formal invitation from you to do so.

I was induced to offer my services to you for one or a course of

lectures--first, in the belief that it would afford both Mr and Mrs Stanford pleasure to attend one of them;--second, with the hope that you, your professors, and your students might be pleased to have an opportunity of studying some facts about animal movements but little understood; and third because I shall naturally feel some gratification in giving my first lecture on this court, on the same ground where my first experiments in analysis were made; and I shall be delighted to learn that it is agreeable to you, and

to Mr and Mrs Stanford that I should do so.

Dr Harkness has done me the honor to invite me to lecture at the Academy of Sciences, which I have accepted with the understanding that your university has the prior claim.

Will you kindly let me know what if any evening will be agreeable for the lecture to be given, and I will immediately inform Dr Harkness who will make his announcement accor

dingly.

I am my dear sir yours faithfully

Eadweard Muybridge

Will you kindly address reply to "c/o Art Association Pine St San Francisco"

there is much delay in the delivery of letters at this hotel.