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Alhambra Springs June 25
Dear Mrs Stanford
in looking over the Chronicle of the 22nd, I see announced the death of your husband which I deeply regret having passed through the same trial in the course of my life. I can assure you I deeply sympathize with you and all those who have fortunately been associated with it is sad indeed for a man of such a mind and heart to be fallen
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a man so wide awake to the interests of man kind so full of love so unselfish his good work have not only been { ?} did to the world but have gone before him and will praise him in the gates that stands ajar for all the good people of the earth I have noted your walk through life that you were hand in hand in every good work and he is today planing a higher and holier work he was a good stewart as an evidence of it Jesus took him in his arms and quietly and sweetly bore
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him away Oh for a death like that, what a glorious surprise to him and a sweet thought for you may that peace that surpasseth all understanding abide continually with you may the arms of a loving savior bear you softly and sweetly into that haven of rest where your loved ones are waiting to greet you
is the ernest prayer of Mrs B Stein
Alhambra Springs Montana
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Sacramento June 21st/93
Mrs Leland Stanford Kind Friend
Merely a line or two which I sincerely hope will not be intruding. To try to give expression to the sincerity of our grief for you in this hour of your great bereavement, would be an either impossibility. with what Love and Veneration My husband always
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held the Sainted Senate I alone know. Therefore our tears flow for your grief as well as for our own and when the flowers that now cover his Bier are faded and gone May we come and place there with our own hand a simple Bouquet? May God bless and console you is the heartfelt prayer of Yours
Lovingly Fannie Steinman
