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

San Jose, June 23, 1893.

To Mrs Leland Stanford,

Palo Alto, Cal., Respected Madam,

Allow me to offer the enclosed verse as a slight testimonial of the great admiration and love I have for the character and life-work of Senator Leland Stanford. I trust the brevity might be pardoned for I am deeply impressed with the thought that the subject treated therein might serve as the inspiration of a great and grand poem.

The card enclosed might serve to help you remember the young man who called upon you several months ago, and who will always remember with pleasure the worthy wife and mother of the husband and son whom a grateful people will never forget.

Yours in deepest sympathy

John G. Jury.

Leland Stanford.

Here cloud-creped mountains silent stand

About thy tomb;

The mountains of a western land

Are cloth'd in gloom.

Strong oaks drip tears upon the sod

On mount, - in dell;

While slender blue-bells droop and nod

To ring thy knell.

A nation's love; a nation's tears

We give, - we shed;

To thee, - for thee. Yea, Earth reveres

The living dead.

To Mrs Leland Stanford

By John G. Jury, San Jose, Cal., June 23, 1893.