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and his genial temperament taught me a lesson which I pray that I may never forget. I know that envy is a sin and brings its penalty with it, but if it ever was pardonable it is that which I feel when I think of the grand purposes of yourself and Gov. Stanford, which have already made, and will, more and more as the years go by, make the whole world better because you have lived.

I was deeply impressed when a prominent educator in another instituion than yours, told me that on Saturday he made it a point to wander about and listen to the remarks of those assembled, and in every instance they were of universally one character - a deep sense of personal loss. We know that the multitude who, with such unexampled unanimity greive over his loss as that of the loss of a personal freind and benefactor, are all praying that your health and strength may be left to them and to the age.

Pardon me for my intrusion, but Mrs Breyfogle and I felt that we must tell you how we greive for him and pray for you.

Thanking you for the honor you did me in enrolling me among your freinds. I beg to remain

Devotedly Yours

C. W. Breyfogle