Jane Lathrop Stanford Papers

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and of work, that you have had little time for any thing else. But I hope that the time has come, when you will permit your friends to share your sorrow, and feel interested in your work. God grant you strength and courage to carry out to completion the plans and hopes which are so dear to you, and and were, and are, a part of the life of your dear Husband, and yourself.

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I think you have probably heard from Anna that Mr. Dawes is at present in the Indian Territory, as the head of a Commission to treat with the Indians, and that she has accompanied him there. They went about the first of January, and will be away for some weeks more. Mr. Dawes was not very well when he went away from the effects of the Grip, but I hear that the milder climate has been very good for him. My son and I, are living very quietly at home, and enjoying the rest; though

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I am sure you want to know why I am writing from Arkansas. Father is down here again on the Commission to the Indian Territory in which he has been occupied ever since he left the Senate. As he is now engaged with the Choctaw Nation, which is right opposite this place, and as he had had some experience of the hotels on them, the Commission decided to stay on the borders this time. It is a great improvement, I must say, although not quite all that could be desired

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the East, and everything else. I want so much to know. Direct the letter to Pittsfield, Mass, as usual, as I shall have left here before you get this.

Father and Mother both wish to send their warmest regards, and I am

Very affectionately yours

Anna L. Dawes

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all they expect to have Isn't that good?

There are some texts in Isiaih [sic] I am very fond of too. I am sure you know them, but I have found them such a comfort I cannot help speaking about them. Isaiah 40:29-31 and Isaiah 41:10.

Speaking of Dr. Hale reminds me of the death of his son. Was it not very sad? I thought you would feel for him very much.

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Miss Dawes

Fort Smith, Arkansas

Nov. 13, 1895

My dear Mrs. Stanford-

I have been trying to write you for so long without finding any opportunity to do so, but I think I would better embrace this opportunity of a little leisure, although I do not quite know where you are. If the news papers are to be believed, you are in the East.

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all they expect to have Isn't that good?

There are some texts in Isiaih [sic] I am very fond of too. I am sure you know them, but I have found them such a comfort I cannot help speaking about them. Isaiah 40:29-31 and Isaiah 41:10.

Speaking of Dr. Hale reminds me of the death of his son. Was it not very sad? I thought you would feel for him very much.

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Miss Dawes

Fort Smith, Arkansas

Nov. 13, 1895

My dear Mrs. Stanford-

I have been trying to write you for so long without finding any opportunity to do so, but I think I would better embrace this opportunity of a little leisure, although I do not quite know where you are. If the news papers are to be believed, you are in the East.

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put my arms right around you - and cry,- with you, for very joy! I did feel very anxious, that that noble work should go on, and now, may you be spared to do just what you want to accomplish, and put yourself beside your dear Husband, into that grand Memorial. The work will go on, and thousands will rise up to call you blessed.

God bless you My Dear, and help you in His own work.

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Shall not you come East again before very long? We shall want to see you here again - and behold the shining of your countenance.

Just now, for a short time, Mr. Dawes and Anna are both away, else they would join me in the congratulations, but my son whom you met, sends his most heartily.

We are all rejoicing with him, just now in his recent engagement to a lovely girl living here Miss Pingree, whom we