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ownership and profit - making control, and the long continued existence of any of them seems doubtful. On the other hand, Stanford University is, so we believe, an institution superior to the uncertainties and transitoriness of commercialism, and destined to outlive every privately owned trust company in America.

I have sometimes considered incorporating my estate so as to initiate during my lifetime the American-Oriental Educational Trust. Would your advice be to incorporate it now or provide for the creation of the Trust by will?

I shall probably be visiting Stanford during the coming winter. Meanwhile, I shall be glad of an answer to my query and for any advice.

Thanking you, and with all good wishes, I am

sincerely yours,

W. Y. Evans-Wentz, '06
(M.A., Stanford; D.Litt., France; B.Sc., Oxon.)

Author of The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (Oxford University Press, 1911); The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Oxford University Press, 1927); Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa, (now being published by the same Press); etc.