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238 Massachusetts Avenue, N.E.
Washington, D.C.
June 23rd 1893.

Dear Mrs. Stanford.

I must ask you to allow me to send
you one word of the regret and sympathy
I feel at the intelligence which has reached
here of your terrible loss.

I received so much considerate kind-
ness from the Governor, that at this time I
experience as deep a sorrow as would have
been possible had I known him longer
and been more intimately connected with
him. I do not feel sure that my
connection with the Governor and yourself
entitle me to address you now, but I
know your kindness too well not to be sure
that you will rightly understand my