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Dear Mrs. Stanford
I have read with great pleasure the announced decision of Judge Ross in favor of the estate of your noble husband. The hospitality of the great temple of learning built by him will now be experienced by the Pacific Coast and in later times throughout the entire country. The gift of opportunity
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to learn was certainly a splendid bequest to the generations to come.
The University has added much to the fame and dignity of California already and will always stand for refinement and those graces of mind which charm and solace mankind.
I expect to send my son to this college.
Hoping that you may live long to realize the good done.
Am most sincerly [sic]
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From Katherine Chandler Washington D.C. about law suit and sending her boy to the University –
Answered
July 20th / 95
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The Western Union Telegraph Company
Feb 10 Paid
Received at Palo Alto, Cal March 3 1896
Oakland Calif
Mrs Jane Stanford Palo Alto
I rejoice with you in this hour of great rejoicing
Elizabeth Chapman
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The Western Union Telegraph Company
Received at San Francisco, Cala. M. Standard Time
Washington DC, March 2 1896
Mrs Leland Stanford
SanFran
Supreme Court has affirmed decision of lower court in you case
Congratulations
A.I. Clarke
12-49 PM