Condolence letters re: death of Leland Stanford: Ho - I includes Alex Hogg, Susan M. Holbrook, Timothy and May Hopkins, Thomas H. Hubbard, John F. Hurst, Frank [Hutton], Ida M.F. Iles, Anna Louisa Ingalls, Ethel Ingalls, and William Innis

San Jose

June 21st/93.

Mrs. L. Stanford

Dear Madame

Receive my heartfelt sympathy in the hour of your heavy bereavement, by the sudden passing away of your beloved husband.

The Senator will be deeply regretted by the whole country, but especially by the state of California, as one of her formost [sic] pioneers, business man, polititian, [sic] and Statesman, but worthyest [sic] of all the greatest philanthropist California ever produced.

Be brave as you always

have been; your lifes work now begins, conclude what you so nobly originated the L. S. J. University

Your sorrowing sympathiser

C. H. Johnson

1st Chief Engineer

L. S. J. University

now Frederichsburg Brewery

San Francisco June 23rd/93

My dear Mrs Stanford,

You will please pardon me for this liberty I am taking, but I could not refrain from doing so, as my Heart is in the deepest sympathy for you, in this your sad hour of bereavement.

I know the good kind loving Husband you have lost, and the most useful man, that California cannot replace.

My two sons, join me in tenderest sympathy to you, and trust that you may be able to bear up under this sad bereavement

If I can be of any assistance

to you, I should be most pleased to serve you.

Mrs. E Johnson nee Oliver.

411 San Jose Ave.

San Francisco.

East Oakland. Nov 10th/93

My dear Mrs Stanford.

I have thought of you continually since you have met with your great loss, and wish I was with you to comfort you in your loneliness.

I have been East six years and buried my Mother, while there, and if you have any occupation to offer me, I would gladly accept, with a small remuneration, in order to be with you.

Yours Truly.

E. Johnson or Oliver.

1165 East 22d St.

East Oakland.

Cala