Correspondence (incoming) - M

H.C. Nash Esq., Sec. Board of Trustees, Stanford Univ. Dear Sir:- Will you kindly inform me about when it is expected that Stanford University will open? I sent (July 9) some original papers, (diplomas etc. from Johns Hopkins, Berlin, Leipzig, Paris [,?] Zurich Universities); I desire to know about how long you may need to hold them. Very truly Arthur MacDonald, 805 Lincoln Ave., Hastings Nebraska

Susanville Cal July 19th, '89

Hon Leland Stanford Dear Sir I have no means of knowing when the Leland Stanford Junior University is to be opened, or the terms on which students are to be admitted, and so take the liberty of writing to you personally. I have read much about the University but the terms for board and tution and the educational requirements have escaped me if they have been published as I presume they have. Can you send me the statements in any form - also if there are residences for families that can rented cheaply, where students could [board?] at home

and go to school. I [have a son twenty?] years old who is desirous of going to your University at the commencement if possible. He is a teacher - has a first-grade certificate and has taught [on it?] two years very successfully, but his father is a disabled federal soldier, and only draws a small pension, and our son has been compelled to assist in the support of the family. I have heard that the terms at your University are to be very liberal, and am very anxious to know what they are, and if it would be possible for my son to go. We also have a daughter ten years of age, and if we might possibly live down there would like her to attend also, and remain until she could graduate. Very respectfully Mrs. C. McDiamond Pardon the liberty

Inglewood Los Angeles Co. Oct 27, 1888

Senator Stanford Dear Sir

I feel that I am doing an unusual thing in thus addressing you but your reputation for kindness and courtesy gives me courage and makes me hope that you will pardon this apparent liberty. The "Leland Stanford University Junior" is a subject which has been discussed in Educational circles all over the world and we Canadians who I may say are not behind the times in educational matters, are very much

will not think it a daughter's partiality when I say that if experience and ability and energy count for anything, he is worthy of any position. In proof of that assertion I refer you to Sir Daniel [Wilson?], President of the University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Dr. Young, professor of Ethics and Metaphysics in the same University, to President Kirkland, The Normal School, [wroutd?], to Judge [Widney?] and Dr.[Widney?], Los Angeles, to President Anderson of Hopkins Academy Oakland and to President Walker who it was rumored was to have been appointed to the presidency of your University and who I believe knows something of my father. I feel that I [can?] hardly expect you to take the trouble to answer [my?] [?] [and I would feel kindly obliged?]