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distinction for the last time as
I served my term which
expected from every one. The
decorations were lovely - paper
ribbons (cardinal) festooned
up to the chandeliers in the
dinning-room - the incan-
desent bulb covered with
cardinal tissue paper to give
a cardinal light, & the
chandeliers trimmed with
mistletoe that grows in
such quantities all about
here. Mrs. Stanford sent
over a wagon load of potted
plants that we arranged
in the lobby with great
[illegible] (red berries & hung
chemise lanterns across

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to be confined in about a month and while up in the night to
tend to her little girl who was restless she suddently dropt dead in the

hall - The body was brought up to San Jose & was buried to-day. One
of the students here - a very nice fellow - [illegible] Jamie [Tuckerman?] but