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Chicago Ill

2109 Prairie Avenue.

March 3d 1893

My dear Mrs Stanford

You
will doubtless be surprised,
at the reception of a letter from
an entire stranger, but having
suffered all the berevements, [sic]
which you have passed
through, my poor heart was
filled with such deep loving
sympathy for you, in this
deep affliction, I felt I must
write to you, although I well
know from sad experience,
that such sorrows as
you have passed through

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most fortunate of the
living often find hard to
bear, It is but the thinning
hide of the radiant portals
that open out in the joyous
light and beauty, the death-
less bloom and everlasting
peace of Paradise.

May you now in this sorrow,
and through all your life
have that peace and comfort,
which can only come from
our Heavenly Father, is the
earnest prayer of one who
would love to be numbered
among your friends.

Faithfully and sincerely

Judith Langhorne Marshall