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Mrs Leland Stanford.

Dear Friend.

In this the day of your great bereavement, we offer our sympathy and condolence.

The State mourns with you in the loss of its greatest and grandest figure.

Irreperable as is your affliction and hard to bear we hope and trust that God may give you strength and courage to pick up the thread, where it dropped from your well beloved husband's hand, and weave the work that was dear to you both, to the completion