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[Barnwell.?] C. [H?] So. Ca
22 June 1893
Mrs Leland Stanford
Menlo Park Cal

Dear Madam,
When I had the
pleasure of being at your
home last month, and enjoyed
your generous hospitality, and
the society of yourself and
your distinguished Husband,
I did not think that the end
of that illustrious life was so
near at hand. My apprecia-
-tion of your gracious kind-
-ness and admiration for
the exalted worth of him who
is gone, prompts me, even
when so slightly an acquaintance,