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[letterhead: STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT,
COMMISSIONERS OF THE SUPREME COURT.
SECRETARY'S OFFICE,
121 POST ST. ROOM 15
San Francisco, April 14th, 1890

COMMISSIONERS
Hon. I. S. BELCHER, Hon. R. Y. HAYNE,
Hon. H. S. FOOTE, Hon. P. VANCLIEF,
Hon J. A. GIBSON.
D. B. WOOLF, Secretary]

Hon. Leland Stanford
U. S. Senator -

Dear Sir -
I have not had the pleasure of much
personal inter course with you, but what
I had, at sundry times, in Company
with my brother-in-law Senator
Stewart impressed me most favorably
in your behalf; not that I suppose
you either needed or especially cared
for it --

When you had the manhood, and
the States manship, to vote for Col
Lamar's confirmation as Justice
of the Supreme Court, I in common
with many of his friends thought, and
still think that it was an exhibition