Correspondence (incoming): M. C. W. Carter

Sep.10 1894 1316 Conn. ave. Washington D.C. My dear M^rs Stanford

I have sent you two letters, but do not believe you have received either of them: - but I feel prompted to tell you again, how of ten I have thought of you and of the happy days in Washington. I rarely pass up Connecticut avenue, that I do not look at your old home on the Corner of K st. and wonder where & how you are & pray

Congress has been so dis-organized for some years & so averse to Tensions that they have told me nothing could be done. Now, there are a number of officers widows, in the same catagory with my self - some who need it even more, for I have a house over my head although according to law I have but one third in terest in it; - my dear husband having died without a will. But I murmur at nothing but have much to thank God for. I have

5) been in town all this hot summer - August has been intense & I feel the need of a sniff of fresh cool air & I am going out to Chevy Chase for a week, while I have some plumbing done in my house - I have been very well all summer for which I feel most grateful to Christian Science. (for the temptation often came to think the wrong way. I have had several

help thee & cause thee to stand upheld by thy righteous municipal hand. When through the deep waters I cause thee to go, the rivers of woe, shall not thee overflow - "I am the Lord they God will hold they right hand raging water thee fear not; I will help thee

I fear I have not quoted all this correctly, but as it came to me & it is always, as comforting to me [?] a treatment, when we say it sometimes to the unconscious mind. Good bye (or "God be with you" as it it means in Saxon -

Most affectionately yours

M.C.W. Carter

1318 Conn. Ave. Washington D.C.

March 14. 1895

My Dear Mrs Stanford

when I eceived your very sweet & kind letter I felt that I must write to you, as soon as you returned to California; but I have not heard of your return. Still I suppose you are, by this time, at your beautiful home & and that your Brother-in-law, in whome you were so interested, had a charming trip to Canada & has quite recovered. When ever I thought of you during the summer I sent you a "good thought". I remained nearly all the summer in Washington, in my dear home