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

Jul 13th/93

MSK

Clifton House Wabash & Monroe Sts, Chicago, Ill.

My dear Aunt Jennie.

It is with much sorrow I have learned of Uncle Lelands death

Please accept my heart-felt sympathy and much love in this dark hour of grief.

Your niece,

Maude Stanford Kinmonth

June twenty-second, 1893

Holdrege Neb. July 28"/93

My dear Mrs Stanford;

Permit me to tell you how sorry I am for your sorrow. There is a great fraternity of bereft wives and childless mothers to sympathize with one another, for only those whose hearts have been broken know know what this relationship implies.

When I heard of the death of your brilliant son my whole being was touched, but not until our own adored Ernest was laid low by the same dread disease under almost similar circumstances

did I know what the terrible blow meant to you.

And now the strong noble heart upon which you leaned, and which never failed you has also ceased to beat, and you in a certain sense are quite alone. Still, very dear Lady you are not alone for He is with you, and your dear Departed in the good deeds they did are living on to bless mankind. You will live to carry out all their plans while they may be helping more than you know. They are doubtless very near at times, yet with our dim earthy vision we see them not. We must work and wait; - soon we will know as we are known.

It may interest you to know how you have helped

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me.

When I lost my son - oh he was a beautiful character and all the world to me.

I lay for months like a crushed thing, bleeding at every pore, feeling that I never could face the world and my changed life again.

One dark day a loved niece said to me: "Betha darling - do not grieve so immoderately just look at Mrs. Stanford, she too has lost a son, and see how increasingly fragrant, beautiful, and helpful her life has become in consequence. Can you not follow her example?

I looked into the pleading eyes of the speaker then I studied you Mrs. S. (your picture in "Ladies Home Journal" helped me,

last of all, I looked "unto Jesus" and resolved with all these sweet influences to help me, to pick myself up and "try again." Your broad and deep benefactions were an inspiration, but since I was not rich like yourself dear Lady - could not build a University, - but of what we had should be given more freely than before. As a memorial to the beloved I erected "Ernest Hall" a substantial and beautiful edifice for a Training School for young men at Bareilly India. I've also assumed the support of Hasan Raja Khan the converted Mohamedan organizer and Superintendent west of the upper Ganges. In addition I have