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

companion has only been called to the dear Father's Home a little before you and there awaits a reunion that shall know no end.

His was a gentle, tender nature, gently and peacefully he stepped over the border into the to us, dark unknown, to him now a beautiful, perfect reality, no more doubts, all peace, his dearly loved son waiting him with glad welcome.

May our Heavenly Father so hold you in his loving hand that you may patiently wait his good time to call you to join those dear ones in the perfect life beyond unhampered by Earthly trials.

Most lovingly, and with sympathy,

Your sincere friend

Caroline S Houghton.

My Dear Mrs Stanford

In the multitude of messages of Love and Condolence which you are sure to receive in this hour of your great affliction, Mr Houghton Minnie & myself desire to offer our heartfelt sympathy, hoping you may find in it, in memory of many happy years of intimate association, in the early days at the commencement of the brilliant and useful career now so suddenly closed. Some little consolation and support, which we offer from our hearts remotest depths

That the good Father who watches over the lives and destinies of us all, may guard and guide you in paths of peace to the end of lifes journey, and then restore you to the open welcoming arms of the loved ones gone before, nevermore to be parted, is the sincere wish and belief of your loving friends.

Mr & Mrs J. F. Houghton

Oakland June twenty first

Stanford Parlor, No. 76,

N. S. G. W.

Address all communications to the Recording Secretary

HARRISON HOUSEWORTH

1235 Hyde Street, San Francisco

San Francisco, June 21st 1893

Mrs. Stanford:-

The Officers and Members of Stanford Parlor #76, Native Sons of the Golden West, desire to express to you their grief at the great loss the State of California has sustained in the death of your honored husband Senator Leland Stanford and to transmit to you, his honored and beloved wife, the sincere and heartfelt sympathy of all the members of Stanford Parlor in this dark hour of your affliction.

Trusting that you will accept our brief message as evidence of our deep sympathy in your great trial, we are with the deepest respect

The Stanford Parlor #76. N.S.G.W.

Harrison Houseworth

Recording Secretary

Mrs Senator Stanford,

Palo Alto.

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