Condolence letters re: death of Leland Stanford: Ch - Cl includes O.B. Cheney, Sister Clare, J.N. Clements (Cazenovia Seminary), Endora Miller Clover, and Lewis P. Clover (friend of Lincoln)

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W. S. CHAPMAN 306 PINE ST.

San Francisco, Cal., June 21, 1893

Dear Miss Stanford

I was shocked this morning on receipt of the early paper which gave me the news of your sad bereavement.

I beg to extend to you my deepest sympathy and all I can feel or say can give you no comfort for I know that your consolation rests entirely in the well founded hope that your dear husband is now enjoying the society of your lamented son whom you & he have so grieveously mourned so long.

Your dear husband rests forever from his labours which though unfinished have been herculian and well done.

Mr. Stanford was a great man kind husband a great thinker

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a master worker and few men have accomplished so much for his country as he.

I can only hope that you will feel as most people do, that his work is done and he has gone to the great reward which must have been reserved for him.

I am

Very Truly Yours

Wm S. Chapman

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Mrs Jane L Stanford Palo Alto Calif

Dear Madam

Allow us to express to you our sincere sympathy in your bereavement. Praying God may sustain and Comfort you; that you may be spared many years to Complete the grand University you and your husband have so firmly founded. We are

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Yours in Sympathy

Mrs & Dr E W Charles

Palo Alto Calif

July 5" 1893

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O. B. Cheney, President. Addison Small, Treasurer. Bates College Lewiston, Me. June 22,1893

Dear Mrs. Stanford,

With the thousands in our land my heart was made very sad last evening in learning of the death of the Senator, your beloved husband. He was good, and noble, and generous. What a loss in his death to the country and the world!

I recall the pleasant interviews at your home in Washington.

The dear son and father have met in the spirit

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