Correspondence (outgoing) to David Starr Jordan, 1892 (Jane Lathrop Stanford Papers)

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[Feb. 7, 1892]

1701 K Street.

Dear Dr. Jordan;-

I have just received your letter informing me of the gift of the wood-carvings, dumb-bell, and music-sheets. I have written to Father Casanova thanking him for the same. It is quite an acquisition to the things he has already presented to me for the Museum.

I have been wishing for a good opportunity to write a lengthy letter to you and Mrs. Jordan. Dear Mrs. Jordan's letter to me was intensely interesting, so original and so like her dear self. It afforded me great pleasure to

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I am not in a condition of mind to write to-day about various things connected with the University. The atmosphere is so filled with noxious elements that do not contribute to ennobling thoughts.

I sometimes sit for a few moments, close my eyes, and go back to dear Palo Alto; and I wonder if it is possible that one person can be so transformed as I have been. When there my sole thought was the University and it gave me so much pleasure to be doing the work I did. Here I am doing another kind of work, which does not seem to be at all self-satisfying.

I am glad to know that you all keep well and are happy. I can say with truth and sincerity that I envy you and Mrs. Jordan the sweet privilege you have of breathing the air of Palo Alto and looking at its blue sky and its mountains.

I remember, the last evening I spent at Escondite Cottage. You said it was so beautiful to get up in the morning and find the mountains still there. I pine to take my favorite drive over the foot-hills back of your house.

Remember me very kindly to Mrs. Richardson. How sweet and lovely it was in her to take the position she did at a time when we were so in need of help.

I am very thankful to be able to say that Mr. Stanford is unusually well; far better

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