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

started for California but could not succeed in getting a stateroom until the Fourth of July the overland trains being so crowded & berths & staterooms engaged a month ahead. This delay in New York has been a great trial to me especially now.

May God give you strength &

courage to sustain you in your loss is the prayer of your loving & affectionate

May.

Friday June 23rd 93.

Occidental Hotel

duplicate of previous page (27) in this section.

THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY

RECEIVED at Ml June 21 1893

Dated New York 21

To Mrs Leland Stanford

Your sorrow is deeply felt by us both and our hearts and thoughts are with you may God grant you strength to bear your burden

Timothy & May Hopkins

Oakland

June 21st 1893.

My dear Mrs Stanford

My deep sorrow for you in this hour of your Gethsemane impels me to send you a few words of loving sympathy, not in the hope of comforting you, for God alone can comfort the heart so sorely wounded, but that you may know you have friends whose hearts bleed with yours in the separation you are called upon to bear for a time, from your loved, and loving Companion.

Do not my dear friend look upon this as death, but as a sweet sleep which only separates the physical man, in soul you are still one forever. Your noble loving