Condolence letters re: death of Leland Stanford: Ca includes M.C. [Cading], Louise Marriner Campbell, J.D. Carr, Wm. B. Carr, M.C.W. Carter, Charlotte Castle, and Clara L. Catherwood

J. D. Carr, PRESIDENT. W. S. JOHNSON, CASHIER. Ans. July 28/93.

SALINAS CITY BANK Salinas, Cal., July 27, 1893.

Mrs. Stanford,

Menlo Park, Cal.

My dear Mrs. Stanford:- I was on my way to my Modoc Ranch when I received the painful intelligence of the death of Governor Stanford. Altough it was not entirely unexpected, ^ ^still it came to me like a dream. I could scarcely realize the fact that he was dead. I little expected it so soon. I feel like I had lost a warm and sincere friend. I do not believe there was a man in California that I was more attached to than Gov. Stanford. I had always found in him a warm and sincere friend. I can say the same of yourself too. I feel like I could not let it pass by without giving you my condolence.

Gov. Stanford and yourself both have always been so kind and sincere with me that I feel like I had lost one of my best friends. Not being a society man myself, it always appeared to me that Gov. Stanford and yourself understood that, and therefore treated me as a plain and sincere friend which I was. I hope it will continue between yourself and myself. My daughter, Mrs. Seale and I have often spoken of both of you. We both viewed you in the same light.

If there is anything on earth that I can do to assist you in your troubles, I would be but too proud to do it. I know you to be a woman of courage and resolution, and I believe you have a determination strong enough to carrry out what you believe Gov. Stanford would have done had he have lived.

Again expressing my great grief and sorrow at your loss, I am, Most truly and sincerely your friend,

J. D. Carr

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RECEIVED at Ml June 21 1893 Dated San fran 21 To Mrs Leland Stanford Mrs Caminetti unites with me in sympathizing with you in your bereavement and regret the Great loss you & the Country sustain A Caminetti

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Dictated by

NEW HAVEN, June 23^d 1893

Dear Dr Jordan,

May I take the liberty of extending through you to Mrs Stanford my most sincere sympathy in her sad bereavement, and assuring her that the loss of such a public benefactor is almost as deeply felt by the world at large as by those who are bound by his nearer ties of actual relationship.

Yours most sincerely Walter Camp

To Dr. David S. Jordan Palo Alto Calif.

ans. Jul[y] 28/93.

Visalia July 25 -

Mrs Leland Stanford Dear Madam. I hope you will not deem me officious if I enclose you a few lines in which I have endeavored to express my admiration of your noble husband whose loss is the grief not only of California, but of the world. For both of you, I have ever entertained the sincerest regard and admiration and beg to subscribe myself. Your friend

Mrs C. D. Campbell. Visalia Tulare Co. California

Hon. Leland Stanford.

Another time death's angel darkling has ^{been here} Another form has bowed beneath the sod. Another soul been summoned to appear Before the bar of our Almighty God

A purer soul ne'er soared to meet its God A nobler heart was never chilled by death. Than when he meekly bowed beneath the sod And yielded up the last faint fleeting ^breath

Wide in our midst his death has left a ^void. A bleak unfilled and solitary space, Of ties dissevered and of hopes destroyed, say I Can we ever fill that vacant place?