Correspondence (incoming): Hu - Hy, 1892-1903

#1912 Pierce Sreet. Jan. 11, 1893

Dear Mrs Stanford

Your cheque for one hundred and fifty dollars ($150,) was received yesterday. I have made the changes in the memorial as you suggested, and hope to receive them by Friday, although "for ways that are dark and tricks that are vain" commend me to Printers

Dear Mrs Stanford, will you allow me to say something to you that lies very near my heart, with-

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Mrs. S. Isabelle Hubbard

Jan. 11, '93

Regarding receipt of check of $150.for memorial.

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out thinking me assuming or presumptuous?

Do you remember in the conversation we had last Saturday, how many times I said how I wish I could feel as you do, that the army of the Dear Lord were around me and that he would lighten all our burdens of sorrow? I want to tell you how much good that short conversation has done me; in fact it appears that I have thought of nothing else since then. As I left your door it seemed to me as though the sun has never shone so brightly

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for a change had taken place. It seemed to me that a hand had been put into mine, whose influence was to change the whole current of my life, and which was to lead me gently toward a calm & peaceful land.

Will you Mrs Stanford try and feel that in telling you this, I am prompted by a feeling I cannot resist and through no other motive?

Most sincerely

S. Isabelle Hubbard

Ans.

San Francisco, Cal. #1912 Pierce Street.

My dear Mrs Stanford

Allow me to add my congratulations to the many you have already received.

Hundreds of the mothers of "your boys," are this day rejoicing that the long peiod of anxiety is at an end, and that the loving Father in His own good time, has

shown the "silver lining" to the cloud that has so long enveloped you. With kind wishes, believe me most sincerely

Yours

S. Isabelle Hubbard

March fifth Eighteen hundred-ninety six

Mrs. Jane L. Stanford

Palo Alto. Cal

Dear Madame:

For some years I have had in my possession the photograph of the late Gen'l U.S. Grant and Li Hung Chang which was taken at Li's Palace in Tien Tsin while General Grant was making his memorable journey around the World.

I have always thought that the photograph had an historic value and should have a place where it could be seen by the many dear friends of the late General.

Knowing of the friendly ties which always existed between yourself and the General and Mrs Grant, and that you have in your private collection in the Leland Stanford Jr. Museum, many mementoes of General Grant, I have been impelled to offer the photograph to you in the hope that you may accept it, and if you deem it worthy, place it with those other remembrances of the late General.

The photograph was the first one printed from the plate and was taken from the private Album of the Tien Tsin photographer who took the picture.

Sincerely Yours

Toby G Hughes

San Francisco.

Dec 17th 1903