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Tampa Bay Hotel
Jany 29th 98

My dear Mrs Stanford

It is with deep regret
I learn from the
papers of the continued
illness of Senator
Stanford. I hope
most earnestly
that the reports are
exaggreated. We
are lossing [sic] so many
of our distinguised
men that one feels
startled and alarmed

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when one reads of
the deaths of any of
them, and I assure
you my dear Mrs
Stanford it would
be a matter of earnest
and deep sorrow
to me if any thing
were to happen to
to my friend your
husband: Do write
and tell me he is
not so ill I wish
I were near you
I think of you so so
often, and have