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Stanford (Leland), Jr., Collection
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Leland Stanford, Jr., collection
creator:
Stanford, Leland
Identifier/Call Number: SC0033C
Physical Description:
2.5 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1870-1999
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, and
to his education. The collection also includes correspondence between Jane Lathrop Stanford
and William T. Ross, one of Leland Jr.'s tutors.
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.
[Identification of item], Leland Stanford, Jr., Collection (SC0033C). Dept. of Special
Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Gifts of Jane Lathrop Stanford, Thomas Welton Stanford, David Starr Jordan, Helen Stanford
Canfield, David H. Canfield, and others; also includes purchases.
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the
documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the
Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
None.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
United States -- Pictorial works. -- History -- Civil War,
1861-1865
Stanford, Leland
Stanford, Leland
Stanford, Leland
Burdette, Robert Jones.
Ross, William T., 1942-
Stanford, Jane Lathrop
Cesnola, Luigi Parma di