Condolence letters re: death of Leland Stanford: K includes John J. Keane, Peter C. Kellogg, Maude Stanford Kinmouth, Elizabetha R. Kiplinger, Lucretia Wolcott Knowlton, and Mrs. J.H. Kyle

were beautifully united. When I was pastor at San F. and by the Senator's desire spent a Sunday at Palo Alto, I feared that my sermon on "The Matchless Character of Christ" would offend him by its intense orthodoxy. But in the carriage he endorsed its sentiments, and your own letter to me, as to its effect on the minds and the hearts of the students, was full of inspiration. When I wrote the article

328 Amber Ave,

(East End)

Pittsburg, Pa.

July 21/93

Dear Mrs Stanford.

Today's (N. Y.) Christian Advocate contains Bishop Hurst's memorial address at the Metropolitan M.E. Church at Washⁿ. It is an appropriate and truthful tribute to your lamented husband. The more I saw of Senator S. the more profoundly was I impressed with the fact that in his personality true godliness and true manliness

at S.F., calculated to do him harm in his reputation, he very nobly responded "I never publicly notice newspaper traduction." Few ladies of this or any other land ever had so majestic a man for a husband as yourself, and his own splendid life will always be an inspiration to you.

Mrs Leech, daughter and self are

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on "Religion at the Leland Stanford J^r Univ^y " that was so widely copied in the east, I was censured by letter & in conversations with narrow-minded pastors and laymen, for praising what they were pleased to call "a godless institution," because it was equally attractive to the Catholic & Protestant, - the Jew & Gentile. When I asked Senator Stanford why he did not deny a certain newspaper statement

and had several letters of response; but he, wisely, desired to keep the Univ^y free from any seeming association with any denomination. Our mutual friend Bishop Newman was still in So. America as June ended.

With Respect,

Your Brother in Christ,

S. V. Leech