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unless one has been
similarly bereaved, but
my heart goes out to
you in sincerest sympa-
thy and I pray you
be given strength
to bear this greatest of
all sorrows-
California has lost her
best friend! She will
never have another
like the Governor and

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Ans. July 26/93.

136 Washington Street.
Hartford.

My dear Mrs. Stanford

You have been
so much in my thoughts
of late, that I can not let
another day go by without
writing and telling you
how I grieve with you in
your great affliction.
No one can realize the
awfulness of such a loss