A, includes C.B. and Harriet Alexander, Bertha K. [Ankam], and Alice Archer-Hornblow

[Barnwell.?] C. [H?] So. Ca 22 June 1893 Mrs Leland Stanford Menlo Park Cal

Dear Madam, When I had the pleasure of being at your home last month, and enjoyed your generous hospitality, and the society of yourself and your distinguished Husband, I did not think that the end of that illustrious life was so near at hand. My apprecia-tion of your gracious kind-ness and admiration for the exalted worth of him who is gone, prompts me, even when so slightly an acquaintance,

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We deeply sympathize

Harriet Alexander

inadequate to express what we feel about him and about you.

It is a comfort for us to feel that the "Comforts of God" are "not small with thee" and that you know and believe what the Saviour did for him, and that the happiness which is his today is to you a reality and a conviction.

We wish we were with you to mourn at your side. What a loss to the Nation! What a loss to California! But what a gain to him!

24 June 1893

Savoy Hotel, Victoria Embankment, London W.C.

My dear Mrs. Stanford: -

The loss of your honoured and beloved husband comes upon Mrs Alexander and myself as a personal sorrow and the common words of condolance [sic] seem too poor and My Harriet sends you her devoted love and will in due course write to you and with the deepest respect and sympathy I am

Very sincerely yours

C. B. Alexander

Mrs Leland Stanford

And how suddenly he was called to his Home-Words fail in which to express to you our deep and sincere sympathy. Please accept our love and may God help you to bear it. Mr. Alexander has already written but he joins again in sending you his love. Yours most affectionately Harriet C Alexander