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

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Eternal shore when we too quit this mortal life, to welcome us to our Heavenly rest.

Although resigned to God's holy will, you will miss the sweet companionship you were wont to lean upon, and the cross presses heavily on your poor broken, bleeding heart.

The Sisters of Holy Cross send you their deepest sympathy, and will not forget in their prayers your dear departed ones; and you too will be lovingly remembered.

With deepest sympathy and love, and asking God's blessing on your poor broken heart, I am with deepest sympathy,

Yours very sincerely

Sister M. Angelica

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loved our University, and with God's aid, we will make of that and our lives the noblest monument we could give him. I wish there was something of comfort I could say, but that is in higher hands than mine. Dear Mrs. Stanford, I pray for you night and morning with my own loved ones. Our Father will comfort you, and perhaps he will let the love and gratitude of those who owe you so much

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[be] of some little [he]lp Most affectionately yours,

May Applegarth

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Fresno, Cal. June 26,1893

Dear Mrs. Stanford: -

I have heard of our unspeakable loss and I cannot rest without sending you a few lines to express my love and sympathy. To the dear Senator and yourself I owe one of the happiest years of my life, and to me, as to all the students, the sorrow is a personal and deep one. I know how he

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of your bereavement in the newspapers, I cannot resist writing you a few lines to assure you of my sympathy!

You told me at Kissingen of the son whom you had lost, and showed me his picture - and I afterwards read of the noble Memorial his father gave the Nation in his name!

When I think of the grief you

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were then enduring, and of your loneliness now, I feel that this world must be sad indeed to you! You must thank God that "the time is short", and that your two dear ones will be awaiting you when it pleases God to allow you to join them.

Now, as you will not know my present name I must remind you of my old one (Lady Alice Eyre)

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my husband having changed his name about a year ago.

I beg you will not trouble to answer this letter, which is merely the expression of the sympathy of an almost stranger!

Very sincerely yours

Alice Archer. Houblon

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Hallingbury Place Bishop's Stortford Herts.

June 30th 1893.

Dear Mrs Leyland [sic] Stanford

Perhaps you may not recollect me, but I have often thought of you and your husband since we met at Kissingen in 1888! And now that I have seen the announcement

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