Correspondence (outgoing)

12.

Mr. Charles Stanford

Albany N. Y.

Clinton Jan 25th 44

Dear Brother -

Having a little spare time just now, I shall improve it by writing you a short letter to give you some insight into what I am agoing to do. I have written to Casenovia and have received a letter from the Principle of the Institution there, stating the school to be in a very flourishing condition; that they have between a hundred and fifty, and a hundred and sixty students; and that they have six teachers. I have received a scheme from them, and intend to send it to Dewitt - (Tell Dewitt I am very thankful for the papers he sends me) The scheme will give all the particulars which you will wish to know. I expect I shall leave here for there Sunday or Monday comeing so that you will please see that there is nothing more sent to this place.

I received yours of the 15th inst., and the letter of which you speak I immediately directed it to Albany and suppose that you have received it as you keep silent. I hope you will let me know what the tenor of it was; aslo how other matters are flourishing. I should like particularly to know about the contract on the R. Road.

I hope that you will not long delay writing after you receive a paper from me dated Casenovia. These fellows here are hard in for having me teach them boxing. Of course, I saw no! The memory of home sometimes rushes in upon me violently causing me to look upon my solitary room dolefully. But I drive the thought back by thinking what I am here for. I begin to feel some of my old condition returning upon me again, and in consequence study goes much easier. Give my respects to Papa and Mama, and all other enquiring friends, and tell them not to forget me.

Yours, &c Leland Stanford

Chas Stanford

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Cazenovia Dec 1st 1844

Dear Brother

Somewhat to my own surprise and perhaps to yours, I have no my pen in hand for the first time to write you since I left home. This is owing to the fact that I have had but little to write and when the time came to write that little there had been each time since hte first letter some letter to answer. And even now I write without having received an answer to my last home. But yesterday when thinking it over I began to think that possibly this silence might be construed in to neglect wherefore I resolved to write you to day even though I might be able to write nothing more than that I was well that the vacation had commenced, that it was to continue two weeks from Wednesday the 27th of Nov. and I find that is pretty much all, I can tell you I might indeed tell you of fine times for hte last week or two, among the girls with whom I have allowed myself to mix a little flirtation with a pretty girl who has sat oposite to me at table for some weeks and who notwithstanding she is engaged to be married would cut here a wealthy suitor (who is a colledge graduate) and run away with me to the other end of the world I believe if I would only let her. There! I hear you mentally exclaim he has been to Cazenovia long enough he may as well leave first as last. But be not quite so fast in making up your mind. I will