Condolence letters re: death of Leland Stanford: Wh - Z includes Andrew D. White, Ann Eliza White, Stephen M. White (Tel.), Geo. H. Whitlock, Blanche Whitwell, H.I. Willey, Emily J. Wilson, amd Ellen T. Windom

My dear Mrs Stanford

Now that friends near and dear unto you have sur[-] rounded you with words of love and comfort permit me to come under the shadow of your great grief with my feeble words of sympathy.

My life experiences have en[-] abled me to go with you in heart in parting for a time with a dearly loved child and trusted sister and in my own recent sorrow I can walk by your side sharing the cul[-]

christian gentleman, magnanimous and benevolent, he stood without a peer, a prince among men. his name has been like a household word with my little family and long before this my dear Madam, you have claimed my sympathy in the death of your dear boy - taught by experience to realize the gloom and despair of an affliction that leaves the heart like a forsaken mansion and the sound of no hope goes echoing through its desolate chambers - for we too have laid under the sod our first-born and only son, just as he reached man's estate and finished his collegiate course - His two Sisters and mother clad in the sable garments of bereavement have kept bright for years with tender care the sacred spot

for no marble marks his resting place, I could ill afford it, indulgence to friends forced a mortgage on my farm of a little over eight thousand dollars. the struggle and self denial to pay interest on this and educate my girls was all I could do, I did it. but last year's crop failure left me in arears and this is so gloomy. I have been notified the mortgage will be foreclosed, Financial depression here is so great although worth five times the sum my farm will not bring amount of mortgage. Pardon my allusion to personal matters - as the surcharged heart finds relief in tears so the weight of our troubles sums lightened by telling of them to others - away down here in Mississippi far

Waverly Miss July 3rd

Mrs L. Stanford Menlo Park

My Dear Madam

The death of no public man has ever so deeply stirred the fountains of my sorrow or aroused such tender sympathies for those left behind as that of your noble husband and I beg to tender you my heartfelt sympathy and condolence - A shock so sudden is doubly hard to bear and yet who can estimate the loss; to one affectionate wife - to his friends - to his State - to his counry, of such a man - his many good deeds have raised a monument to his memory which will be perennial - a noble

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from your once happy home continually an appeal goes up to the throne of Grace for your comfort and welfare - I am in tenderest sympathy yours

Most rspectfully

Jos. H. Young

THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY RECEIVED at Mlo June 21 189 Dated New York 21 To Mrs [Cara?] J Blood

Please express to Mrs Stanford my profound sorrow over the death of her noble husband

John Russell Young

THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY RECEIVED at Menlo Park Calif June 21 1893 Dated New York 21 To Mrs Leland Stanford

Accept my profound sympathy in your supreme sorrow

John Russell Young Union League Philadelphia