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The Pacific-Union Club.
San Francisco. June 30, 1893

My dear Mrs Stanford

You will be glad to
know that Mrs McCoppen
is feeling better and stronger
today. She begged me to
take her to the Dear
Governor's Funeral, but
fearing she might not be
equal to the strain, I put
her off with such excuses
as could be made under
the circumstances.

In end I think we
both feel better today

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to me. "He was too great a
man to remain bound by
the narrow environment
of a hard Creed," and then
he paid a very high tribute
to his Character.

These are the things and
they are countless, which have
endeared him to the hearts of
the people.

When I looked upon
his dead face for the last
time "The mild angelic air,
the rapture of repose was there."

Sincerely Your friend

Frank McCoppin

P.S. I will not trouble you to
answer these lines
hastily written F. McC.