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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