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"A committee of the council was appointed to confer with Robinson and report
two days later. In their report they recommended the acceptance of the
proposition, provided Robinson would give bond to allow the city the privilege
of redeeming the half block within six monthe for the sum of $1,000. The
mayor was, accordingly, ordered to sign a deed of conveyance, and Robinson
secured to the State the transfer of the University samus.*

This story is based upon the council procesdings (Page 402) and Governor
Robinson himself, who at that time apparently had no thought that the transfer
of the original 40 acres of the campus was a gift. Of interest, too, in this |
connection is the footnote on page 70 of the History, with reference to Mrs.
Robinson's wie in the traneaction. On the authority of Governor Robinson and
Fred Read, "About half the campus was the property of Mrs. Robinson, who re-
ceived for her share something over $600 from the citisens of Lawrence."

With reference to the third item of .this inflationary table of gifts
is the gift of Jas. z, Lane. I quote from page 83 of the History the following
account! (The authority for this statement was a personal letter from R. W: Oliver).

"The north campus was not yet in satisfactory form. Gen. James H. Lane
' owned two and three-fourths acres necessary to complete the square of ten
acres, and the good offices of Chencellor Oliver were again called inte re-
quisition. He conferred with Gen. Lane and secured bond for title by giving

his personal note for $100. Gen. Lane, however, was sels pone. to

  
 

“ feturn the note and donate the land to the State.! a
In the middle of our inflationary statement is ps ewigtasl of Mr.
Ellsworth's misinformation that the MeCook bequest was $12,500. ‘the whole

table is a blend of facts ani fiction, I suppose fabricated as legislative
"ammunition". I am not sure that I understand the mental processes of the
compiler, but I assume that having started with the gigantic ee of
the original 40 acres as a gift he readily carried over his anibed mee

items. If Governor Robinson gave 40 acres worth $40,000, surely the 12} acres og