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Salina Boulder Co, Colorado

July 9th 1893

Mrs Leland Stanford

Palo Alto

Calilfornia

Although I have
never had the Privlage of
seeing you, will you Premit me
^{to write} a few lines of Condolence to you
in your great bereavement, how
I have wept over the great-
sorrow that befell you & your
beloved husband in the death of
dear Son, the sketch was
written by Miss Ingalls, in the
Feb No 1892 of "the Ladies Home
Journal" and ^ever since that time
you have become very dear to me