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own bosoms & share our own home as long as it pleases God to keep us on this troubled earth. We must address ourselves to the rearing of her beautiful babies.
Should you cross her path in California, I command her to your affectionate kindness. At present she is in San Francisco.
I feel intensely interested in your great enterprise. May you prosper in it & may it fulfil [sic] all your hopes!
Very Sincerely Yours
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Vallejo Township Sonoma Co. Cal
Jan 20th 1891
Mrs Leland Stanford
Respected Madam,
Please receive the accompanying verses, which were composed by my son, Alfred J. Puckett, while confined to his bed, by a shot which sent a bullet into his breast, he is my only child, and he was so very much disappointed that he was not able to attend the unveiling of that statue, that will be a monument to your thought
