Condolence letters re: death of Leland Stanford: E - F includes Adeline M. Easton, Margaret Edes, George F. Edmunds, Morris M. Estee, W.W. Evans, Leila Johnson Ewing, W.W. Faris, Stephen J. and Sue V. Field, and George Frere Flint

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RECEIVED at Ml June 22 189[3] Dated Washington DC 22 To Mrs Stanford

You have my sincerest sympathy in your sad bereavement

Mary Edwards

1701 K St. July th 11:-1893

Dear Mrs Stanford

Pardon me for not writing to you sooner but i knew that your gried was so great that I did not like to intrude.

I can not tell you how shocked I was to hear of the sudden death of Senator Stanford.

I sympathize with you deeply in this your great sorrow knowing as I do what a good devoted husband he was.

But you have great consolatio[n] in the knowledge that he passed away so peacefully in his own home, and that he has gone to Heaven where all is peace and rest.

His good life on earth entitles him Gods mercyful reward.

I pray God to strengthen you in this your hour of lonylness and sorrow, and that he will help you to bear your cross.

With kind regards your sincerely Mary Edwards

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are [m]ore sincere tha[n] mine; none - my dear friends, desire to come more closely to your side than I with the blessed promises which fill His book - many of them I have personally tried and proved - May you be able to say with the man of God of old "I sought the Lord and He heard me." May you find and apply the Balm of Gilead - and find strength to bear all burdens - light to cheer the darkest hours - Pardon this intrusion - and think of me as your sincere, sympathizing friends Mrs E. John Ellis,

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June 27/93.

316 Peters Avenue New Orleans. La -

My dear Mrs Stanford:

Would that I could express how my heart feels for you in your deep anguish and sore bereavement! When I read the sad news that your noble husband had left your side to be with that precious boy, I wished to be near you to whisper as best I could words of comfort or at least to mingle my widow-tears

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with yours - for we a[r]e sisters in sorrow, I too have passed through these same dark deep waters of affliction and have found the blessed Redeemer near to hold me up - or the waves would have gone over my head - May the blessed Jesus - whom your child and husband held so precious, be very close by you day and night -

The very time that the telegram reached us, telling of Senator Stanfords death, I was re-perusing your kind

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note referring to my Lilians marriage - It contained some kind expressions from your husband - which I appreciated then, and now more than ever,

When in Washington I heard of so many deeds of charity which you and he bestowed upon needy ones - Counselled and encouraged by you, his noble works live after him - and he built his own monuments,

Many will come to you with words of sympa -thy, but none of them