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My address

Anna H H Addams

Cedarville

Stephenson County

Illinois

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Cedarville June 27th 1893

My Dear Mrs Stanford

Believe me I sympathize most
deeply in your late sorrow and
bereavement of your Honored husband
and our most lamented Senator
Stanford; whom the east claims
(as ours) as well as the west. --
my heartfelt sympathy has been
yours silently for years -- as I
with my daughter and a few
friends were visitors in Rome
when we heard of the death of your
dear and lamented son. But I
feel that I too have been so
sadly bereaved--being twice
widowed my lost lamented husband
died twelve years ago, while we were