Condolence letters re: death of Leland Stanford: Mac - Mc includes Helena Mc Carthy, John B. Mc Carthy, Edward M. Mc Cook, Frank Mc Coppin, John W. Mac Kay (Tel.), Mary Harrison Mc Kee, and Emily Beales Mc Lean

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one short year we laid her away in her bridal robes, with the flowers all about her, and I felt then, as I have done ever since, that all the brightness had gone out of my life forever, so far as this world is concerned. But even then I could not pray to be taken to her, for my darling had left a tiny blossom in my arms, to tend and care for, so there was still work for me to do, and so I have struggled on, with an aching heart

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I leave the matter with you, and whether you accede to my request or not, will you not write me a line to show that I am not misunderstood; for believe me, I am asking for others, what I never did, nor ever could have asked for myself, and I ask it only in His name. No one but God and myself knows of this letter, and you will keep this confidence sacred, I know.

Yours sincerely

Mrs. S. E. McCune

106, Braddock Ave. Braddock Pa.

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and tearful eyes, and failing health, till the wee baby is a sturdy boy of six years.

I was thinking of all this last evening, and of you, and the means you have of doing good, and I wished that I might be the means of making some one happier for my having lived, when all at once the thought came into my mind, that I would write to you in behalf of two of my friends, one a life-long friend, a refined and educated woman, who

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has been working hard for years, trying to pay off a mortgage on her little home, (and with poor success I fear), by keeping boarders. The other is my only sister whose husband died a few months ago, leaving her four children to train, with but small means to do it. How a few thousand dollars, which you can so easily spare, would seem a mine of wealth to either of these wearyhearted women, and would bring blessings on your pathway as well as theirs. However

405 West Fayette Street. Baltimore - Maryland.

June twenty-first -

My dear Mrs Stanford.

My heart goes out to you in your great bereavement. Will you accept the deepest sympathy of your very humble friend.

Bettie H. McEwen.

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

RECEIVED at Menlo Cal June 23 1893

Dated Nevada Cal 23

To Mrs Leland Stanford

Palo Alto

Accept my heartfelt sympathy

T B Mcfarland

THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

RECEIVED at Ml June 21 1893

Dated Vina Cal 21

To H C Nash

Your telegram is received and we learn with deepest sorrow of death of Senator Stanford Please convey to Mrs Stanford the expression of our heartfelt sympathy

H W McIntyre

In behalf of all employed at Vina Ranch