12019-05-01T13:56:04-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12332305plain2019-05-08T18:21:19-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12Herbert Nash was hired by Leland and Jane Stanford to tutor Leland Stanford Jr., a post he held until the boy's death in 1884 at the age of fifteen. Nash wrote a laudatory biography of the young man, In Memoriam: Leland Stanford, Jr. It includes information about Leland Jr.'s travels and emerging interests in archaeology and antiquities. Nash also wrote a short, descriptive guide to the Leland Jr. "Museum" (as the boy called the installation of his collections in his parents' San Francisco mansion), which was recreated in the memorial rooms of the University Museum when it opened in 1893.
12019-05-01T13:58:42-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12Leland Stanford Jr.Emilia Porubcin6structured_gallery2019-05-11T16:07:53-07:00Born Leland DeWitt Stanford, Leland Stanford Jr. was the precocious son of Leland and Jane Stanford. He developed an early interest in archaeology, including Egyptology. Although he never traveled to Egypt himself, he purchased Egyptian antiquities from Gustave Posno and other European dealers during family trips to the continent in 1881 and 1883/1884. His tutor and biographer, Herbert Nash, describes Leland Jr. spending hours in the Egyptian Wing of the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, copying hieroglyphics and sketching artifacts. After Leland Jr.'s unexpected death in 1884 at the age of 15, his interests inspired his parents to found a museum in his honor at Leland Stanford Junior Memorial University.Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12