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Oct 23, 2017 egwess Oct 23, 2017 egwess Aug 31, 2017 Stanford University Archives	2 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	2 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

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