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Convent of Mercy,

San Francisco,

June 30, 1893.

Mrs. Leland Stanford

Dear Madam,

Although I
have not the honor of knowing
you personally, yet I take the
liberty of offering you, with the
deepest feeling of respect, my
most sincere sympathy for the
loss you have sustained in the
death of your much revered husband,
the late Hon. Leland Stanford,
whose long life was marked by