Correspondence (incoming): Ba - Barn, 1882-1902

waste basket, if there is no possibility of getting Willie in. I do not know the rules & regulations regarding your Institution, save that it enables many struggling young men & women to get an education.

I do hope if there is anything that I can do for you, that you will have no hesitation in calling upon me.

May earth & heavens richest blessing be yours & the sweet peace of God, which passes all understanding ever keep your heart in calm repose, under the weight of sorrow which has been yours.

Ever truly yours

Eugenia Jones Bacon c/o Brown Shipley & Co. London

[same as page 4, already transcribed Sept. 18]

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from Mrs Brown, England, unanswered

Beaumont House Oxford Nov. 13th. 93

My dear Mrs Stanford

I suppose I should not again write you, because you must often be burdened with letters, but our interchange of thought and hearth has been so unique, that I dislike to let the tender thread drop to the ground. Our hearth our rows have been so similar and our boys, so near the same age when they entered the Celestial City, that we surely do have feelings in common. Your noble foray of looking upon grief is so often my own heart and the simple manner in which I too have tried to receive the chastening of the dear Master that I praise God in that He

[left side] has given you strength to go about your glorious work. So many bow under the rod, and refuse to be comforted. A loving child receives the burden, supposed trying to keep from expiring, as so many do, even those who are called by His Name. He bore his Cross { ? ?} for our sake.

I must tell you that I have just had a paper giving the account of the drowning of Mr {?} W. Wells of {Sa ?}, the father of one of the girls who went with me to California & Alaska. These two young girls are now orphans, the mother having passed on a year ago. With all the brightness in life, surely here is much of the grey mist of sorrow, to remind us that this world is not all. If only the everlasting arms are beneath us

with free transportation, as an evidence of the confidence and kindly relations existing between us; dating back to the old days when friendships formed, not easily broken.

Again thanking you for your thoughtful kindness and with best wishes for your happiness and prosperity.

I am very sincerely yours, Alexander Badlam.

Feb. 15th '95

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My Dear Mrs. Stanford

Please accept the heartfelt thanks of Mrs. Badlam and myself for your kindness in complimenting us with a season pass over the lines of the S. P. Co. This is highly appreciated by me coming as it does from the widow of my dear good friend Governor Stanford who always honored me

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Alex Badlam thanks Mrs S for the pass