Condolence letters re: death of Leland Stanford: Da - De includes Madeline Vinton Dahlen, C.E. Daily (Comissioner for King Tebureimoa of Butaritari, Gilbert Is.), Anna Agnew Davis, Horace Davis, Anna L. Dawes, E.S. Dawes, Noble E. Dawson, and Lucy A.H.

Aug 28/93

Feast of the assumption!

DAHLEN.

Boonsboro, Washington County August 15th 93. Maryland

Dear Heart!

How nobly you are bearing your heavy cross! Thanks be to our precious Savior, who has gone before us, in the toilsome way. He who, never loves us so tender as when we suffer in unison with His sufferings. Saint Theresa, the wonderful mystic Saint, understood this Science of the Cross, so well, that she even prayed, "let me suffer, or let me die" As we become spiritualized, we take on His very likeness, and rise as

if on wings into the higher life, the real life. The chariot of fire that translated the prophet of old, was a symbol of this purification. Here we live, as it were in shadow and "passing away", is the requiem Earth always gives, but my loved friend, we are passing upward into the life everlasting. Yet there is one great joy in this world, one transcendent blessing, the real presence, I pray God, for this healing for you, and that you may fully and really meet your dear departed ones, in the fulness of this wonderful communion of Saints, where loneliness is soothe[d]

This is Heaven on Earth, I pray God, that this support may be given to you. "Seek and you shall find", dear brave Heart. This is a day of great rejoicing with us, for on this day we believe that the Blessed virgin was taken out of her grave, and gloriously assumed into Heaven. This belief is not of dogma but rests on traditions But the legend is full of consolation for all women, and mothers, whos[e] sons have gone before, You here we see the Divine Son take up into Heaven his human mother, full of love for her -

Do you remember dear Friend, that it was agreed upon, when you made me that visit, (that gave me as it were a revelation that we fully understood each other); that I was to write and let you know, when the Vicomtesse di Cavignareo, should have been a month under my roof, a candid opinion in her regard.

It is two months to day, since the unfortunate lady has been my guest

She is a high-minded woman, and the cheerfulness, with which she endures the buffets of advers[e] fortune, is a daily lesson for me.

She has a simplicity of character that is admirable, and she has the good sense to adapt herself to her surrounding

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DAHLEN.

It seems to me, she would be invaluable in forming the mind and manners, and directing the heart of a young girl Naturally, a woman of her illustrious lineage is familiar with the usages of the best society, and her french is of the purest parisian accent.

Her daughter had to leave Cuba where she was a governess on account of the climate. making her ill in summer, and was in a cheap New-York boarding house, and unprotected, when the Ursuline nuns at Fordham sent for her, and she is now with them, while lookin[g] for a suitable situation as teache[r]