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affliction, it makes me feel
more for others, than probably
I would under other circumstan-
ces. Hoping you may find
some comfort in these lines
for your bleeding heart, and
always bear in mind that
earth has no sorrow that
Heaven cannot heal.

I will now close this letter
by wishing you , when lifes
trials & sorrows are over,
a happy home in Heaven
at last reunited with all
your loved ones that have
gone before, never more to
part.

Very Respectfully
Mrs Fannie A. Mettert
2229 Venable St
Richmond
Virginia

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Richmond
Virginia
July 3- 1893

Mrs Leland Stanford:
Dear Madam:,

Feelings of the deepest
sympathy, prompt, me to write
you a letter of condolence.

You have been heavily stricken
and, bereaved of both husband
and only child, and my heart
goes out to you, in deepest
sympathy. No one on earth
can measure the anguish of
your heart, thus torn & lacerated
by Deaths relentless hand, that
neither spares from his icy
touch the "Throne or the hovel.