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Department of Justice,
Washington, D.C.
March 23, 1887
Hon. Leland Stanford
San Francisco Cal.

Dear Sir:
If you wish to get a collection of minerals, for the University in which you are interested, let me call your attention to the collection made by my late father, the late Joseph A. Clay of Philadelphia and his brother, the late Hon. John Randolph Clay. The latter having died a year or so ago this collection will now be for sale, as neither my brothers nor I care to take the collection and keep it up. [?] [within?] a short time of my father's death, 5 years ago, he kept the collection up to the times in regard to new species [etc?], and to the time when he ceased adding to it