Condolence letters re: death of Leland Stanford: Ga - Gw includes Julia R. Garniss, Grace H. Gilmor, George Goddard, Sarah Vail Gould, Julia D. Grant (Tel.), U.S. Grant, Jr., Anna Guthridge, and Wm. M. Gwin

you would do. And the blessed hope of meeting him and your precious boy, and knowing that he will feel she has done all I could have asked. She has helped to finish the works I left undone. And hand in hand you can contemplate the magnificent momment [sic] you have seared to the memory of your

Dated Tuxedo Park NY 22

To Mrs Leland Stanford Palo Alto

All our deepest sympathy & love in your bereavement

Augusta Patten Glover

Providence should require your irreparable son to give him his crown of immortal laurels the reward of his life whose manhood was devoted to the greatest work of the age, and its resultant fortune, to found an institution to benefit the highest interests of humanity.

With heartfelt sympathy with your great son

I am dear Madam

Yours faithfully

George H. Goddard

Pacific Grove

23d June 1893

Hon. Mrs. Leland Stanford

Dear Madam

Permit the oldest surviving Civil Engineer of the Central Pacific R.R. the Co-worker and companion of Mr lamented Judah express his sorrow at the loss of the Chief who brought the great enterprise to a successful & glorious completion.

Strange that the dispensations of a mysterious

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competent to realize how great the bereavement is. I have thought of you so constantly since the sad news reached us. There is one great consolataion to you that your husband and son are united. Father and Son with their precious Saviour, and with your hand in His, He will lead you in sweetly, and lovingly to the end, until you meet them again.

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We almost look upon you as one of us now, as from early life was passed in this part of the state, again let me extend my sympathy, and that of my daughter, Mrs Lincoln.

Yours sincerely

Sarah Vail Gould

May [?]

June 22nd