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touch your heart and
be my excuse for
writing of matters outside
your great loss. Would
that I were capable of
telling you how pained
I am to hear of how
much has seen taken
out of your life and
the irrepable loss to
California in the
death of Govnor Stanford,
the void this has made
in your life no words
of sympathy can fill
the sympathy of others
is always sweet

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57 Rue Ampere
Paris. France

Dear Mrs Stanford

I had just finished
the Enclosed letter to you
when the very sad news
of the death of your noble
husband reached me,
And I delayed sending
it not wishing to trespass
upon your greif with
the troubles of others, but
the urgent need the
cry of want from helpless
orphans I feel will

[Left page]

touch your heart and
[Br?] my [House?] for
uniting of matters outside
your great loss. Would
that I were capable of
telling you how pained
I am to hear of how
much has seen taken
out of your life and
the irrepable loss to
California in the
death of [Governor?] Stanford,
the void this has made
in your life no words
of sympathy can fill
the sympathy of others
is always sweet

[Right page]

57 Rue Ampere
Paris. France

Dear Mrs Stanford

I had just finished
the Enclosed letter to you
when the very sad news
of the death of your noble
husband reached me,
And I delayed sending
it not wishing to trespass
upon your greif with
the troubles of others, but
the urgent need the
cry of want from helpless
orphans I feel will