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New Hackensack
Dutchess Co N.Y.
June 23rd 1893.

Mrs Leland Stanford
Palo Alto California

Dear Madam,

It is with profound sor
-row, but not with surprise that I no-
-tice by the New York papers of yesterday
an announcement of the death of
Senator Stanford, a great loss to the
Country at large, but a greater loss
to you his wife, who have been call
-ed upon to triumph with him
in his singular prosperity, and in
his sorrows. Though not intimately
acquainted with Mr. Stanford it
was my privilege to know of him, through