Leland Stanford, Jr. papers, 1871-1893
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- 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.
Description
Type of resource | mixed material |
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Extent | 2.5 linear feet |
Place | California |
Publication date | 1871 - 1893 |
Issuance | monographic |
Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
Associated with | Stanford, Leland, Jr, 1868-1884 |
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Subjects
Subject | Stanford, Leland, Jr, 1868-1884 |
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Subject | Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893 |
Subject | Stanford, Jane Lathrop, 1828-1905 |
Subject | Burdette, Robert Jones |
Subject | Cesnola, Louis Parma di |
Subject | Ross, William T, 1942- |
Subject | United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Pictorial works |
Genre | Clippings. |
Genre | Journals. |
Genre | Poems. |
Bibliographic information
Biographical/Historical | 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. |
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Ownership | Gifts of Jane Lathrop Stanford, Thomas Welton Stanford, David Starr Jordan, Helen Stanford Canfield, David H. Canfield, and others; also includes purchases. |
Location |
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LCCN | ms 67002103 |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/dn105jf2263 |
Location | Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford Univ. Libraries, Stanford, CA 94305 |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- The materials are in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use.
- Copyright
- The materials are in the public domain.