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Call Number: SC0028
Creator:
Davis, Horace, 1831-1916
Title: Horace Davis Papers
Dates: 1865-1916
Physical Description:
3 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Custodial History
Gift of Mrs. George Proctor.
None.
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.
[Identification of item], Horace Davis Papers (SC0028). Stanford University Archives, Stanford, Calif.
Horace Davis was a United States representative from California, a member of the original Board of Trustees of Stanford University
(1885-1916), and President of the University of California.
Papers include family correspondence (with a few pertaining to the Civil War United States Sanitary Commission); correspondence
relating to the administration of Stanford University; and a few articles by Davis, diplomas, and pamphlets. The bulk of the
papers concern Stanford University, its Board of Trustees, and the problems it faced such as salaries, tuition and fees, faculty
reirements, discipline, the 1906 arthquake, and problems of organizing the Board of Trustees. Correspondents include Thomas
R. Bard, George Crothers, Henry T. Gage, David Starr Jordan, Samuel F. Leib, George C. Perkins, James D. Phelan, Whitelaw
Reid, Eugene E. Schmitz, Silas W. Terry, Booker T. Washington, Benjamin Ide Wheeler and John D. Works.