Condolence letters re: death of Leland Stanford: J includes C.H. Johnson, Georgina S. Jones, David S. and Jessie Knight Jordan, Albert L. Judson, and Anna Juduh

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Camp of Instruction, near Peekskill N.Y. July 1st 1893

Dear Mrs. Stanford,

I have waited for a few days to follow my telegram of sympathy with this letter to express more fully my heartfelt sorrow for you in your great loss of your noble husband. The news of his passing away came upon me with a peculiar shock for he looked so well when I last had the pleasure of meeting him in Washington. That death came to him in so kind and painless a form is the way God had of telling you that he had closed his short earthly career with the seal of His words. "Well done, thou good and faithful servant. Enter thou into the kingdom I have prepared for thee." He is now with your beloved boy and they will watch, with joy, the completion by you of the great good they started with you in the University, and when the end comes will welcome you to share with them the untold joys of eternal life. "For they are not dead, but living in the joy of the Lord"

As long as these United States shall stand and even after they have passed away will the honored name of Leland Stanford be remembered for his nobleness and goodness and

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kindness to all mankind. "Men and women, in countless thousands, revere his memory, and when he died the little children cried in the streets."

Of course, my dear friend, my poor words cannot comfort you, or tell you how much I wish I could do something for you, but my heart does go out to you at this time and always and I hope you can let me do something, anything, to help you in any way.

Mr Stanford has gone to his long and well earned rest, a king in this battle of life a victor of the world and its temptations, and when the trumpets called him to his tent and he had lain down the battered armor that had served him during the combat: when the tender hands of God's angels had washed off the dust and blood of the conflict, he stood forth a strong and a beautiful soul, a soul which God shall crown with a shining diadem and welcome to

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Camp of Instruction, near Peekskill NY

His mansions of eternal peace.

With love, and sympathy Very earnestly Albert L. Judson

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Arsdley [Ardsley] Park Dobbs Ferry on Hudson June 25th Dearest Mrs Stanford

How little did I imagine that the joyful act of thanks I sent you last week would reach you plunged in heaviest sorrow! Words are so trite--what can I say but that I ------------------------------------------world is a blow to all. { ?} think that I was in his {mind?} so shortly before he left you. With much love ans Faithfully yours Alice { ?} Judson

c/o Mrs Stanford

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Send to you my deepest my truest sympathy-I am most sad to think I shall not again behold the face of one who has ever been most kind to me or hear from his lips gracious and sweet words.

To day all who have felt this great heart ache to whom he gave his friendship

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