Correspondence (incoming): Carr, Austie L., 1894-1895

friends will be here and I suppose it is too much of a trial to go among people yet. Could you come and see the little boy before the others come - ? I would love so to have you - With best love -

Most sincerelyAustie L Carr -

2122 Cal. St. March 22 ^nd '94

I have taken a comfortable little flat for the Winter until he does decide what he will do - Then we will probably build - I picked up in the library the other day a book called - "The Wedding Garment" by Louis Pendleton Have you ever read it? If not I should be so glad to send it to you, for it has greatly interested me - I went to St Lukes church today - and the sermon - and the lessons which were read, all harmonized in thought with the book. Then I remembered what you said one day - That you believed your son Leland - grew in mind and body in the Heavenly home just as he would have done here

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let me know some time - when you are here - so that I could call - I would so love to - . Mr Carr and his father sold all of their interests in Kern Co - and we expect to make San Francisco our home now - My husband expects to go into some sort of business here - but does not want to decide too hurriedly and so is still looking around.

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#2916 Sacramento St Carr

ALC [monogram]

My Dear Mrs Stanford -

I have thought of you so often and have wanted to see you so much in the past six months - since I have been living here - I have heard of your being in town on several occasions, and have you to your [our? ] house, only to find it all closed up - would you

So possibly the man who wrote this book has the same conception of Heaven - that you have - It seems a beautiful one to me - My little Leland is still strong and well, and a perfect joy to his father and Mother -. I hope that you may see him some day - My love to you

Very sincerely - Austie L Carr - [dec 1^st 94]

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that a blessing may ever rest on one who seemed to me so good & true. How well I remember the last day I saw you, both at your house & mine & how full of sympathy & kindness you were & how willing your dear husband was to take my "pension Bill." It seemed almost prophetic, that I did not leave it with his Committee. I should willingly have left it with him, for nothing was far[-] ther from my thoughts;

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than, that he would never return, but I thought - in a Committee, papers have been so of[-] ten mislaid - Alas! the Bill has never been passed. I have never had the courage to go myself up to Congress. One or two of my gentlemen friends have tried to do what they could for the last three years & a half (ah! Think how long it has been) - Once it passed the Senate, but not in this Congress -