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

 boys will be happy if they win. 



On July 20, 1896, she wrote to a candidate for a professorship: 



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 $9,000 I am obliged to furnish myself, 

 through the strictest economy and the husbanding of resources; consequently 

 I am not increasing expenses but on the contrary shall retrench in the future. 



On December 28, 1895, she said: 



I must confess to a feeling of great pride in our entire body of students, 

 both male and female, and I think we are all in a way under obligations to 

 them for their uniformly good conduct, and a desire, as my dear husband once 

 expressed it, to be ladies and gentlemen. 



On July 29, 1895, she wrote: 



I send a precious letter from Mr. Andrew White for you to read. I read it 

 with a heart running over with various emotions. Mr. Stanford esteemed him 

 so highly I could not but feel like asking God to let my loved ones in heaven 

 know the contents of this letter. I prize this letter beyond my ability to 

 express. It lifted my soul from its heaviness. My heart is one unceasing 

 prayer to the Allwise, All Merciful one, that all will be well for the future of 

 the good work under your care. When the end of our troubles is over, all 

 (these letters) will be placed in your hands for future reading by our students,, 

 a story for them when I have passed into peace. 



Soon after, she wrote: 



I return herewith Mr. Choate's kind letter. God bless him, for he was a 

 friend indeed. 



After the decision of Judge Boss (July 6, 1895), she wrote: 



I dare not let my soul rejoice over the future. It must be more sure than 

 it is now. I hope and pray that the final decision will be as sure as the first. 

 It means more to me than you or the world have dreamed. It means an unsul- 

 lied, untarnished name as a blessed heritage to the university. My husband 

 often used to say : " A good name is better than riches." God can not but be 

 touched by my constant pleading, and this first decision by Judge Ross makes 

 me humble that I so unworthy should have received the smallest attention. 



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, she writes to her trusted solicitor, Eussell Wilson: 

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



