Condolence letters re: death of Leland Stanford: N includes Mrs. A. E. Newman, John P. Newman, Mary P. Nimmo, and Joseph A. Nunez

2521 Broadway, S. F. 22 June 1893

My dear Mrs. Stanford:

I have just arrived home from a trip to Portland, and take the first opportunity to express to you for Mrs. Nichols and myself our sympathy in the great sorrow that has come to you. Recalling the privilege I so recently had of sitting with you

of the departed with the high aims and efforts for the living, embodied in the University.

Should it be in any { favor ?} at any time to serve you please consider me, please to do so.

Yours very sincerely William {?} Nichols

THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY RECEIVED at Menlo Park Cal 22 Dated Chicago 21 via Sanfran To Mrs Leland Stanford

In my studies of commercial and transportation problems I have known & honored Governor Stanford the World has sustained a loss in his death

Joseph Nimmo Jr

no man, had never dishonored his word nor failed in reverence to God's temples {nor{ His priests and people. We rest upon the promises and the loving kindness and tender mercies of our Heavenly Father and His Christ. And you are not alone, my dear friend, in your homes of silent, agonized bereavement. You never can be alone. {I?} can see the glorious light upon your face, at this

distance, see you looking through the blessed moisture that shines in your eyes and I know that you are saying, I have placed my hands in the pierced hands of my Saviour who suffered all things for me and who doeth all things well. The time is short, my Sweetheart, and then we shall enter into the unutterable glory of our Father's house and the perfect joy of a

June 22nd 1893

My dear Mrs. Stanford:

Belle and I were grieved to the heart last night when we learned of the death of Senator Stanford, not for him who had passed the mysterious gates of the future, but for you and for ourselves, for we feel that we have lost a friend. Senator Stanford had wronged

family reunion with not one lamb of all the floods missing. We shall all be there endorsed with perfection mentally and physically. We can live the rest of our days with such a prospect before us. Blessed be the name of the Lord and Father of our Saviour Jesus Christ, forevermore! Our hearts are with you, dear friend, in tenderest sympathy, and I wish I were by your side to hold your hands in mine and that we might pass the days in loving converse, and communion. We send dearest love to you and pray for God's peace and love to be with you, and I remain, yours faithfullly, May P. Nimmo

922 15th St. McPherson SE, Washington

are beyond my reach with pen and paper, and I wonder much if I shall ever see you again. I shall never forget the last time I saw Governor Stanford. It was on one morning at your house; I had gone to see you and the Senator was in the hallway ready to go into the carriage. You were out. He knew me and looking at me with infinite kindliness he enquired if there was anything he could do for us. Oh, I did not think, I could not know that I should never hear that kind voice upon earth again! I never, never dreamed that Senator Stanford was so near the golden throne! But I shall carry

with me to my dying day the belief that had he received the letter I wrote and addressed to you both and left at your house in Washington, two years ago, that he would in his great manificence [sic], have made some provision for the relief of the orphans of a man who lost his life in his service.

You have many added cares and weighty responsibilities, but I know your great capabilities and that you are divinely blessed with the mental and physical strength to manage the angst affairs consigned to you. Few Queens of history have had so royal a trust confided to them as is yours. Thank God for your splendid, moral, intellectual and bodily powers!

Belle and I are here for the next six weeks. I am filling a