Pages
Untitled Page 22
THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
RECEIVED at Menlo Park Cal June 22, 1893
Dated Sacramento Cal 22
To Mrs Leland Stanford Palo Alto
Will Mrs Stanford in this terrible bereavement kindly accept the heartfelt sympathy of the widow of James McClatchy
no sig
Untitled Page 23
THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
RECEIVED at Ml June 21 1893
Dated Sacramento Cal 21
To Mrs Leland Stanford Menlo Park
The family of the late James McClatchy sympathize deeply with you in the hour of your heavy affliction the Nation has lost one of true and loyal champion [sic] a warm earnest Valued friend
Untitled Page 24
My dear Mrs Stanford.
Since the sad news of your great bereavement came to us my every thought has been of you in your utter loneliness. One comfort you have is the memory of doing everything in your power for your dear husbands happiness comfort and peace.
Last summer when you got on the cars at Valencia Station and I sat next to the Governor between 3 & Townsend & Valencia Sts, among other things he told me of a sermon he heard when he was a young man, from the text "A good name is better than precious ointment and the day of death better than the day of ones birth" - he said it impressed him then and he believes it fully now. I feel I must send this little incident to you
Untitled Page 25
for he spoke so beautifully of living a life of usefulness and of helping the great human family, possibly that text which had so often been in his thoughts since his eighteenth year, might be another legacy to humanity by having the text for his funeral sermon.
Pardon my coming to you. The dear old times of long ago, when you and your dear husband did so much for my happiness, is never forgotten, and now that the shadow of death has enveloped you in its sadness I cannot help but say I love you and sympathize with you and pray God to comfort you.
Sincerely Yours
Miss Maggie M. McClure
Belmont
June 22d 1893