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No. 225 MADISON AVE.

My dear Mrs Stanford

I want to write to
you words of love and
sympathy in this hour
of your great affliction.
Oh that I could do something
to comfort your aching
heart! The last time I saw
your noble husband was
in calling at your house
in Washington, you were
absent and he kindly
came down to the carriage
and had a little chat with
me so pleasantly, and he
look'd so well I can hardly
believe that he has left us.