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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 remem-
bered for his nobleness and goodness and