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)

with this help to still be a beautiful example to yr. sisters -

My heart aches for you. You do not bear yr. load alone - seldom do men have such sincere mourner[s] as has Leland Stanford & from these, believe me there are daily prayers offered for yr. comfort.

Not more than others, I deserve, but God has given me more - & to me are spared my husband & boy & I praise God -

Affly-

Louise M. D. Clark

1501 Mass. Ave - Washington D.C.

Sacramento July 29th 1873.

To Mrs Leland Stanford, Palo Alto

Dear Kind Friend

Knowing you to have been the recipient of a vast number of letters of sympathy and consolation. I bided my time, and now sincerely tender you mine. And may He who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb comfort and console you. Are we not sometimes sad when we should be glad? Gone to a life of bliss; compared to this. Surely! our loss is his gain; At rest freed from pain; Surely to rise again; Without a Stain; On his beloved name. A life well spent, His name his monument. Your university will make it ever blessed be; Through all futurity. T'was his delight to plan. How best to benefit his fellow man. And well he understood. The way to do most good; With the vast means at his command, Founded the greatest college in the land; To give a practical education. To the boys and girls of our nation, Without regard to Station. Every employee of the Rail Road Company; are apprehensive and sad. Lost the best friend we ever had. He would always say. give the boys good pay; If you want good work, Then they will not shirk. Ever courteous and kind, I fear we shall never find His peer. He was near and dear to all who knew him well A man in every way, No truthful one can say; He went ever far

astray. In virtues paths he trod. In unity with God, and his fellow man. T'is pleasure to think the loving Lord As a part of his reward, Painlessly lulled him to sleep; His darling not by to weep, Spared the agonizing sight Of death near midnight, When his Spirit took its flight. He called him to his rest, When He thought it for the best. Would I call him back! I should courage lack, Might he called again within the hour, No! I would not had I the power. He was near three score and ten, The great majority of men Live not near so long, Few who do are Strong, And with a weary sob and Sigh Say "the years draw nigh, When I have no pleasure in them." My friend for over forty years. Why shed sorrowful tears! Why regret and grief? Death is often a relief, And we hold to the belief That the Spirit never dies, But Swiftly flies To realms beyond the skies. Let us prepare, To meet him there, And not grieve; But hope, and believe, We shall again meet And time flies fleet. Until then Dear Governor farewell.

And now Kind Friend whom he so fondly loved, may the blessings of Heaven rest upon you. May you be spared to carry out all his intentions with Divine guidance. And may you be resigned contented and happy. As the prayer of Yours Truly. Wm. H. Clark. Officers Box Sac. R.R. Depot.

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RECEIVED at Menlo Park Cal June 22 1893 Dated Cazenovia NY 22 To Mrs Leland Stanford Please accept heartfelt sympathy of the Trustees & faculty of Cazenovia Seminary in your great bereavement J N Clements Principal

My dear M^rs Stanford

The passing away of "Governor Stanford" takes from California her most noted citizen, and from you, his idolized life, the devoted husband. The 'State' mourns with you the loss of so grand a man.

Most sincerely M. Redding-Clements "Orphans' Home" Vallejo June 22/93