Letters of Mrs. Stanford 



going on smoothly as far as I know at the university. The 

 boys are wild over the game to be played. I hope they will 

 win, because they will be happy if they do. 



On July 20, 1896, she wrote to a candidate for a pro- 

 fessorship : 



The university still is restricted and limited in its ambitions 

 and its aims, because of my inability to increase the number of 

 students or the number of professors. The gift of $2,500,000 

 in bonds which I have by the grace of God been enabled to 

 give to the trustees for the present and future maintenance of 

 the university brings in a monthly income of $10,000, while 

 the actual expenses for the faculty and the president and the 

 necessary matters bring the sum total of expenses per month 

 to $19,000. This $9000 I am obliged to furnish myself, through 

 the strictest economy and the husbanding of resources; con- 

 sequently I am not increasing expenses, but on the contrary 

 shall retrench in the future. 



From Paris, August 30, 1897, she wrote: 



I wish the rest of my responsibilities caused me as little 

 care as does the internal working of the good work. I am only 

 anxious to furnish you the funds to pay the needs required. 

 I could live on bread and water to do this, my part, and would 

 feel that God and my loved ones in the life beyond this smiled 

 on the efforts to ensure the future of my dear husband's work 

 to better humanity. 



Again, in 1897, to her trusted attorney, Russell Wilson: 



I stand almost alone in this blessed work left to my care, 

 and I want and need the president's support and his helpful- 

 ness in this work as far as he can support me. There are plenty 

 who are interested in the affairs of the estate with me, but few 

 in the university. 



In July, 1898: 



If I am able to keep the university in the condition it is now, 

 I shall be more than thankful. $15,000 a month is a great 

 expenditure, and exhausts my ingenuity and resources to such 

 an extent that had I not the university so close to my heart 



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