Correspondence (incoming) - Sa-So

Hartford, Conn., Aug 12, 188[9?] To Secy. Stanford University Palo Alto Cal. Dear Sir: Will you kindly send catalogue of University to Miss Bertha Shepard 25 Pratt St. Hartford Ct. also will you please inform me whether there are to be any openings for an instructor in Education or in any of the Applied Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, or especially Electricity and Electrical Engineering, and oblige Very truly [?][E.?]Shepard

68 [College?] St Middleton Conn.

Dear sir We would like to have a simple wooden building for an office for our superintendent and for the surveyors, built somewhere between the new dormitory building and the quadrangle, the dimensions and arrangement of building to be like the accompanying sketch. Very faithfully yours Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge Menlo Park 15 May 1889 Hon Leland Stanford U.S.S.

Rocklin, May 20th, 1889 Stanford University:San Francisco,

To the Faculty:Desirous of taking a course of medicine I write for information as to the cost for a whole course, the general time consumed and what examinations to [have?] in before [commencing?] work. My means are limited and I will want to get through as soon as possible with thoroughness. I am, Yours Respectfully, M. Henry D. Sherman [Placer?] Co., Rocklin, Calif.

Syracuse, July 4th, 1887 Senator Leland Stanford Most Honored Sir

The well-known fact:- That all prominent men get more or less letters from starngers, which are good for the waste-basket only:- causes me to commence these lines with the petition: To grant me the time, and do me the honor, of perusing them; as they do not contain any petition for alms. The commencing of the buildings; designed to be The "Memorial University" of your lamented son; which, through your munificence, will soon be completed; brings the natural thought in my mind:- that this university will also have to be supplied with teachers, and that now is the time to correspond. I am a graduate of the Gymnasium at Vienna, Austria, and have been teaching in this country, for the last 12 years. I have just prepared a young

man, of this city, for College. My specialties are the Modern Languages [and?] the Mathematics. I would beg you to read the annexed copies of testimonials in order to judge whether I am worthy of an appointment to the University. I am thirty-five years of age; your niece [Miss?] Stanford; who attended Washington College in 1875-6 knows me. Very respectfully W.A. Sieber

P.O. box 228 Syracuse, N.Y.