C. F. Crocker to CPH, March 16, 1887 CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 45.
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.
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.
Wm. H. Mills to CPH July 28, 1893, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 52.
For Timothy Hopkins, Sidney M. Ehrman, "Timothy Hopkins, 1859-1936," California Historical Society Quarterly 15 (March 1936): 97-98.
"A Big Sensation Caused," New York Times, Aug. 1, 1891.
"The Hopkins-Searles Will," New York Times, March 6, 1892.
on Hopkins, CPH to Gates, March 9, 1889, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 47.
for Southern Pacific officers and board members, see Poor, Manual, 1889, 912.