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The Society of California Pioneers
5 Pioneer Place
San Francisco, Cal. August 1889

Hon Leland Stanford
Dear Sir
As an Alumnus of Yale and Trinity and as a Pioneer, I feel deeply interested in your inspiration to found a great University on the Western rim of this Continent by a gift unparalled; which as a bright shield and a monumental fortification will protect this nation from all that is bad of foreign civilizations and will reflect and extend our own and our banners to the remotest East.
For these reasons I take the liberty to express a few thoughts and to refer to you to the magazine articles enclosed concerning modern systems of education, which contain sentiments that have before occurred to me and which perhaps might be worthy of engrafting upon a University system.
These are
1st The building of Universities by diffusion of culture through Expansion and Affiliation.
2nd Academic Freedom in opposition to Academic [Regime?],