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as to find the present, the first opportunity when I could send a word of sympathy to you.
Your husband's loving care and foresight have smoothed for you as far as human power could do, the way he knew you must tread alone, but your heart can never lighten its load,
your life never lose its utter loneliness.
The noble activities that have so long engaged you both, will now be a solace to you, and will fill your days to overflowing in carrying out those far-reaching plans for the youth of this land.
It is my earnest hope that
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July 16th Answered
My dear Mrs Stanford,-
Since the sacred hour that my son and myself spent at Palo Alto, when the doors closed upon the dear companion of your life, I have been absent in Kern County, and down the coast, and have been so engrossed by business cares
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health and long life may be granted to you, and that you may see a full realization of all that your dear ones and yourself have planned.
As I feel that I must not intrude upon you in these hours, so full of bitter grief, I want my message to tell you how deeply I sympathize with you,
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and how thoroughly I realize what your husband and you were to each other, - truest of friends, most helpful of companions.
With every wish that the comfort of memory may soon take the place of the gloom now upon you, I am
Yours affectionately,
Phebe A. Hearst. E.
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him to the career of Leland Stanford. And we do so, not because he acquired great wealth, but that having acquired it as God's steward he used it for the glory of God and the good of men. We rejoice that he set such beneficent influences in motion and that he found in you a keeper so efficient. We beg to assure you that you have our sympathies in your great sorrow, and our prayers that you may be spared many years to bring the seed which you and your lamented husband sowed in tears together to magnificent fruitage.
Very Sincerely Yours,
John Hemphill
Palace Hotel
San Francisco
June 29th 1893
