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where its value as an educational
factor was endorsed by such
men as those whose names
you many find in Appendix A
"The Human Figure in Motion."

From the fact of this
same apparatus having been
devised and constructed for
the express purpose of
demonstrating the truths
revealed by the first photographic
investigation ever
made of the changes incidental
to motion of any kind
and all taking place on the
site of your university under
the special auspices of its
founders, I thought its acquisition
might commend itself
both to you and Mrs. Stanford
as not only for the use to which
it might be put in your lecture
halls, but as an interesting
evidence, of the interest
Senator and Mrs. Stanford
and their son took
in scientific research long before
the founding of the university
took any practical shape.

I am obliged for your suggestion
and have by this day's mail
written to Mrs. Stanford on the
subject, but not knowing whether
she has returned to Palo
Alto and not wishing my
letter to go astray, I have
taken the liberty of addressing
it to your care with the hope
that you will kindly hand
it to her - if absent - upon her return.

Faithfully yours

Eadweard
Muybridge