Condolence letters re: death of Leland Stanford: Bl - Br includes Jas. G. Blaine, Jr. (Tel.), Henry W. Blair, John Bonness, J.H.C. Bonté, F.O. Boyd, and John Boyd

that he would have wished.

We hope that time will come to your relief, and the sadness of today may be mellowed into an holy memory that will uphold and strengthen you ever and alway

Sincerely

Mrs John Q. Brown

Mr and Mrs John Q Brown Jr.

Hotel Bella Vista June 23rd 1893

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

I lost a dear brother a few years ago. I hope that you may be sustained and soothed by trusting in that better life which comes after this and is eternal.

Believe me to be

Very sincerely

Philipp Brown.

1709 M Street.

Washington D.C.

My dear Mrs Stanford,

I was very much shocked on learning the sad news of the death of your husband.

I know how congenial and happy you were together, and how sad you must be to think of the seperation. We are never prepared to loose one that is dear to us no matter how long we have been expecting the dread messenger, but when it comes suddenly the shock is doubly hard to bear, I can sympathise with you very deeply, as

This morning when the news of the Senator's death arrived I was deeply affected for I felt as though I had lost a personal friend (for such he was, considered in Sac.) and wished to express my sympathy.

Indeed the ways of the Creator are strange, but, dare we question them? He has only claimed that which is his own. Words are useless as only time can heal such wounds, yet my love, and sympathy is with you in this your hour of trial.

Lovingly your friend

Phebe Cordelia Brown.