ENPages That Mention Frank McCoppin
Condolence letters re: death of Leland Stanford: Mac - Mc includes Helena Mc Carthy, John B. Mc Carthy, Edward M. Mc Cook, Frank Mc Coppin, John W. Mac Kay (Tel.), Mary Harrison Mc Kee, and Emily Beales Mc Lean
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THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
RECEIVED at Menlo Cal June 23 1893
Dated Sanfran 23
To H C Nash
Will act as requested Mrs McCoppin sends love to Mrs Stanford. I have lost my best friend and California its foremost Citizen
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The Pacific-Union Club. San Francisco. June 30, 1893
My dear Mrs Stanford
You will be glad to know that Mrs McCoppen is feeling better and stronger today. She begged me to take her to the Dear Governor's Funeral, but fearing she might not be equal to the strain, I put her off with such excuses as could be made under the circumstances.
In end I think we both feel better today
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to me. "He was too great a man to remain bound by the narrow environment of a hard Creed," and then he paid a very high tribute to his Character.
These are the things and they are countless, which have endeared him to the hearts of the people.
When I looked upon his dead face for the last time "The mild angelic air, the rapture of repose was there."
Sincerely Your friend
P.S. I will not trouble you to answer these lines hastily written F. McC.
