Thorpe, Henry Edwards Huntington, 39.
"Extract from Our New York Letter," Union Pacific Employes Magazine, April 1887, p. 96.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 342-43.
In 1880 some 1,640 acres of the Stanford Ranch and its improvements were assessed at $76,475. The cost of the tomb, exclusive of three steel caskets and the transportation of the marble across the country, was $96,700
Real Estate and Improvements, San Francisquito Ranch, box 3, f. 12, and Westmore Morse Granite Company to Caterson and Clark, Nov. 12, 1887, box 3, f. 13, both in Stanford Papers.
The ranch in 1880 was smaller than the eventual Stanford campus of over 8,000 acres.
Photographs of the Memorial Arch are available at http://collections.stanford.edu/shpc/bin/page?forward=home.
For an account and Saint Gaudenss explanation of the iconography, see The Progress of Civilization in America, Sandstone and Tile 8 (Winter 1984): 10-11.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 344-46
CPH to James Speyer, Dec. 6, 1899, pp. 12-14, CPH Papers, ser. 4, r. 1
Sargent to Stanford, Jan. 11, 1885, box 2, f. 12, Stanford Papers, SC33a.