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Selby Smelting and Lead Company
A. J. Ralston
416 Montgomery St.
San Francisco, Cal.

San Francisco, July 21, 1893

Dear Mrs Stanford

I have thought of you very much recently in your sore affliction
and assure you of my hearty sympathy. I loved "the Govr"
as we all like to speak of him & felt very near to him in many respects
because of his warm hearted sympathy with mankind and of his
generous spirit shown on so many occasions.

I was particularly touched by the considerate arrangement for the
pall bearers, and that he had not forgotten those honest & faithful
engineers, who shared with him in the early struggles of that great en-
terprise, which meant so much for the country.

I have often thought of the time when yourself, sister & other friends
from Sacramento were camping at Donner Lake, at the time when the
Govr was struggling with the difficulties of those mountain passes.
We were all younger & more elastic then and trials were then over-
come with the vigor of buoyant manhood.

I congratulate you on the grand stand you have taken in
the management of that large estate and feel that guided as you
must be by Gods spirit, to do the right & influence as all your { ?}
show, you to be so kind & considerate in the discharge of your important
duty, success only must result & good & happiness be enjoyed by
many now & in years to come, untold good through many generations.

May God bless & prosper you & may you feel encouraged in your
good work is the earnest wish of

Yours very Truly, A. J. Ralston