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1721 Oak Street,

San Francisco, California

June 21st 1893.

Dear Madam:

It is with feelings
of deep sorrow that my wife and I
have learnt of the demise of your
husband, Hon Leland Stanford, and
we realize that in the death of this
great and good man not only you
but the entire people of California have
sustained a great and irreparable loss.

Having had for nearly
forty years the privilege of his ac-
quaintance and friendship, and
having been for a long period necessarily
thrown into his company almost every
day in the transition of business
in the early history of the system of
railroads on the Pacific Coast, of which
he was one of the chief constructors and
Managers, I can truly say from per-