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The Portland

Dear Mrs Stanford

I have just this moment heard of the death of your dear husband; and of him, who, has by his uniform kindness; independent of his munificent acts of charity, and great public benefits endeared himself to his personal friends and won the admiration of all you know him.

How great to you must have been the shock of his sudden removal; how glorious to him his entrance into that abode where