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San Francisco

June 29, 1893.

Dear Mrs Stanford,

With a sensitive feeling of
delicacy which hesitated to intrude
on the bitterness of your grief
at this time, I would most
tenderly convey the assurance
of my heartfelt sympathy
for you, sitting at your
desolate hearthstone, weeping
and refusing to be comforted,
over the loss of the lover