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My dear Mrs Stanford

I am so sorry for you. No
one feels more than I do
for you. Your husband
like our dear Mrs Charles
Crocker was to [sic] good to
suffer the pain of death
for my dear friend. I know
what it is. 2 or 3 times I
& those around me thought
I was dying when I am suff-
ering untold agony. I beg to
die & yet when I thought my
time had come I was astonished