Leland Stanford, Jr. papers, 1871-1893.

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Leland Stanford, Jr. papers, 1871-1893.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/462019681

Correspondence, journal, notebooks, drawings, personality studies and school work of Leland Jr., and condolences to Senator and Mrs. Stanford regarding the death of their son. The correspondence and journal relate primarily to family travels in Europe and activities at home in San Francisco and Palo Alto, to his interests in archeology and collecting (including a scrapbook of commemorative Civil War envelopes), and to his education. Also includes correspondence between Jane Lathrop Stanford and William T. Ross, one of Leland Jr.'s tutors.

2.5 linear ft.

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 7562026

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford, Leland, 1868-1884

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Leland Stanford, Jr., the only child of Senator and Mrs. Leland Stanford, was born in Sacramento, California on May 14, 1868. His early death in March 1884 just before his sixteenth birthday inspired the founding of Leland Stanford Junior University in 1885. From the description of Leland Stanford, Jr. papers, 1871-1893. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 462019681 Biography Leland Stanford, Jr., the only child of Senator and...