Condolence letters re: death of Leland Stanford: T includes Mrs. T.W. Tallmadge, H.M. Teller, Emma H. Tillotson, Lily Rosecrans Toole, A.N. Towne, Nellie L. Treat, Kate Trowbridge, and E.C. Tubbs

THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY 18 paid 223p RECEIVED at Menlo Park Cal June 22 1893 Dated Grand Island Neb 22 To Mrs Leland Stanford Menlo

You have my heartfelt sympathy Governor Stanford was my best friend May heavens Eternal blessings rest upon him

Thos. L. Thompson

Mrs Stanford: Dear Madam:

For the sorrow that comes to a heart bereft of life's dearest treasure, there is no consolation only as the soul seeks rest under the shadow of His Wings. The sympathy of friends comes as a balm. Time touches the bruised spirit and it still lives, but lingers frequently in the corridors of the past. Hours of great sorrow come to all and humanity can

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that will become diadems for Eternity.

May God help you in the carrying out of your plans and may strength and wisdom be given to you, comfort and consolation be yours.

Very truly yours, Ella M. [Thomson?]

Co. Los Angeles July 11th '93.

magnificent scheme of yourself and noble husband for the elevation of the youth of our western land. I have felt the deepest interest in the project and your life plans. We see marble and granite, libraries and museums, halls of learning being reared by you. They will stand for ages as the magnificent concept of a noble man and woman, but this is not all. This also means that a vast multitude of young men and young women will there get an impetus for a future life of cultured energy, and we trust christian usefulness.

sympathize with the sorrowing. However it is to friends that we look and draw the curtains between us and the world. Pardon the intrusion of a stranger at such a time. The world mourns the loss of the great and good. The life works of a man of noble deeds pulsate through out time and lend a mighty influence in the uplifting of humanity. Since the foundation stone of Leland Stanford Jr. University was laid and I read of the

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My dear Madam

Being a perfect stranger to you I hope you will pardon me when I dare to add a few words to the eulogy given in the above.

There are so few men in the same position held by the late Senator who find time in their busy lives, seeking for the wealth to be obtained in this world, who think about their fellow beings good welfare that when such a man does appear he belongs to the people as he bears in mind we are all clay and the greatest pleasure in life is to make others happy

My uncle & father when they were alive & wealthy followed the idea that to make themselves happy & of use to mankind was to make others happy and

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although I have to work hard for my living, a crisis having swept away my fathers fortune, the wealth I might have had could never have taken the place of the legacy I now possess viz that people remember them for their kindness & good deeds. and should I ever be fortunate in business and able to help others I would rather leave this world knowing I had made others happy & secured their love then [sic] own the earth.

Kindly pardon a stranger for addressing you at this sad time but my dear madam the kindness and good done by your husband is the finest monument he could possibly raise in this world & in closing I can only say I regret there are not more who follow in his foot steps.

Yours respectfully M.M. Thomson