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San Jose Cal
Mch 6.96

Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Madden
My dear valued friends

Valued, because
you have continued your
loyalty and devotion to the
memory of my dear hus-
band, and you have not {?}
{ ?} it to him alone. You
have taken me into your
interest, and feel an in-
terest in the blessed work
which has been left to my
care, my inability to manage
which, is far greater than
if my husband had con-
tinued his earth life. Were
I trusting to myself, I should
feel unable to go on, but I
have learned through the
years of sorrow which God
has been fit to discipline
me with, that there is a
higher arm to lean on, and