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Lynchburg V^a
July 10^th 1893

Mrs Leland Stanford

Dear Medam

Allow me
as a stranger and
a Virginian to to express
to you my sympathy
in your deep and
sad affliction in
the loss of your
noble husband.

It had never
been my pleasure to
have known Senator Stanford
only by reputation and
our mutual love for
the King of Animal
intellect, the horse.
Still I felt that we were