Correspondence (incoming): Ri, 1893-1896

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Rich, A.G., ALS thanks for passes Jan 18, 1895 Rich, Louise C., ALS thanks, etc. Jan 19, 1895 Richardson, Lucy S., ALS re the University Oct 14, 1894 Riggs and Co., ALS Aug 9, 1893 and Sep 1, 1893 Riggs, Kate G., ALS and cvr. sending poem by Mrs. Richard Lowell Feb 1891 Riordan, W. O., ALS Jan 4, 1895 and Mar 2, 1896 Riordan, Archbishop, Telegram Merry Christmas undated [Rixley or Riply], Mrs. M.F.W., ALS Jan 27, 1896



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kindness you have shown us in sending this most useful and valuable present. It will be of the greatest possible service to me in my business affairs, and I hope the means of giving a great deal of pleasure to Louise.

With our most sincere thanks and all good wishes believe me yours faithfully [?] [?] Rich

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Bakersfield 18th January '95

Dear Mrs Stanford I have to acknowledge with many thanks the receipt this morning of a note from Mr Brinkley, your secretary, enclosing a pass for the year over the Southern Pacific Railroad for my wife and myself.

As my name is not familiar to you, though I have had the pleasure of meeting you once at Palo Alto. I had better refer to my wife as one who was Louise [Conner?], & thus explain myself. We are very grateful to you for the

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your gift are many but it also means that thru the winter, in my wretching ill health, I can now get back & forth to San Francisco for medical advice, if necessary.

My friends thought me unwise to marry a man whose worldly possessions are small - but a precious and loving husband is beyond all that money can bring. I have often thought of you - in your great loss and of what the terrible loneliness must

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My dear Mrs. Stanford

My husband wrote our thanks to you for the rail road pass - but I want to send you my personal and grateful thanks as well.

The pleasures of

he - and hoping that around you may be friends to whom you can turn for love and sympathy - "friend" - in its deepest, truest sense; is the greatest comfort of sorrow.

My father though seventy five years of age seems wonder[-] fully vigorous & well. He has been

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see his big black eyes & his gentle ways. But I must not write so of him.

With our united thanks to you, dear Mrs. Stanford, for your generosity to us - & hoping the year will bring to you Gods best blessings

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I am.

Faithfully yours

M. Louise Rich

Bakersfield Cal.

January 19 1896 -

We are building a little redwood house of three rooms on our ranch land here - becoming pioneers, in a way - and Mrs. George Carr is our nearest

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