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P.P.S. I would much rather be in the Leland Stanford Jr University than in Chicago, if that were possible. But one is probably quite as much of an air-castle as the other. I have no idea that either will take me. The young men are steadily crowding us old fellows out, and the solid experience of a quarter of a century doesn't count for much. I wish I could see my way clear to spend the rest of my life in a mild climate. They are putting about as much money into that new university in California as into the one at Chicago. But I don't suppose they will have any use for me. Would you advise me to write to Pres Jordan? Do you know him, or anybody there?-----My son writes me from San Bernardino of sitting out in the evening without coat or vest, while we have 14 degrees below zero. That is the temperature to-day, and it has not been much better for three weeks past. J.C.F.