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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Answered July 11/93

Washington - June 22 Samir Place 1893

My very dear Friend

I wish that I were near you, to tell you how deep a sympathy I have for you in your great sorrow.

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We will cherish the recollection of the last visit Mr. Stanford made as the day before leaving Washington, he was so cheerful had a smile then.

My dear Mrs. Stanford believe me, with earnest remembrances of Judge Field your friend Sue V. Field

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Judge Field and I, have thought of nothing else but your grief, since we saw the flags at half mast yesterday and learned that our dear friend had been called

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to heaven, we weigh our tears with yours and pray that strength may be given you to bear this anguish, your sorrow, from heaven comfort alone can come.

Watertown NY June 22nd 1893

Dear Mrs Stanford

Permit me, to reach out my hand in sympathy to you in your bereavement

God has dealt you severe blows but for some wise purpose - we cannot fathom his meaning but certain it is that they have some hidden purpose. He has promised to comfort you in your afflictions. Believe in Him trust in Him -

Mrs Flower joins me in sympathy. Sorrowfully yours

Roswell P Flower

Ans. Aug. 5/93.

BISHOPS' ROOM Methodist Episcopal Church South No. 346 Public Square Nashville, Tenn July 27th 1893

My Dear Madam:

When intelligence of the death of Senator Stanford reached me, my heart prompted me to send you a line expressing my profound sympathy with you in your sorrow, and my sense of the loss to California and the nation. The remembrance of my early acquaintance with him, and of many acts of courtesy and kindness on his part, imparted an element of tenderness to my regret on account of the death of the most generous benefactor of our times. God will sustain and comfort you now, and no good thing that He hath promised to them that trust Him will be withheld from you - this is the conviction and prayer of

Yours Very Truly

O.P. Fitzgerald

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 kindness 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