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"another hand is beckoning us.
Another call is given,
And glows once more with angel steps
the path that leads to heaven."

My dear Mrs Stanford.

While I was in Sacramento visiting my mother, Mrs Gordell, I was so pained to hear of your deep affliction, and we both wish to express to you our heartfelt sympathy words are inadequate to make known to you the great loss which has fallen upon the City, State and Nation, by the removal to his immortal home, your precious husband, but what a great satisfaction it must be to