Letter, Guido H. Marx to James Gleason
A letter to James Gleason from Guido H. Marx, a mechanical engineering professor at Stanford University. Marx received his engineering degree from Cornell University in 1893 and had gotten his professional start in Rochester with the Gleason company. In his letter he acknowledges receipt of a catalog about the Gleason planer and discusses his finances, health, and employment status.
Stanford University, Cal. April 21 1897
My dear Jim:-
Your new gear planer catalogue
is a beauty & deserves acknowledgment.
Please accept my thanks for the copy sent me.
Prof. Smith tells me to suggest to you that
he would receive a copy gratefully.
I see that you have not been idle but have
been getting out a vertical machine using
rotary cutters. I have enlightened my
boys on the subject of the Gleason Gear Planer
& told them they could see one at the Union
Iron Wks. in “the city” (as we call San Francisco)
but will make no charge for the advertisement.
Work keeps me busy but I like my teaching.
Was encouraged a few weeks ago by receiving a
promotion in my appointment for next year.
Had a serious illness about Christmas time
but otherwise all has gone well with me.
Cash is still a scarce article around the University.
So much so that we are unable to make
even a start toward equiping a machine shop,
anxious as we are to do so.
Hope everything has been going well with you.
With regards to your father, Kate & Andrew, I am,
as ever,
Yours sincerely,
Guido H. Marx.