Correspondence (incoming): Ri, 1893-1896

see it: after all the simpler the lessons the more they enter the heart.

Sincerely your friend Kat G. Riggs

To airy shelves of pastures green That hang along the mountain side Where grass & flowers together lean & down through mists the sunbeams glide But nought can tempt the timid things Those steep & rugged paths to try Though sweet the shep-herd calls & sings & scared below the pastures lie, Till in his arms the lambs he takes Along the dizzy heights to go Then, heedless of the rifts & breaks They follow on, on rock & snow, 'Till in those pastures lifted fair More dewy sweet than lowlands mead The Shepherd drops his tender care

And Sheep & Lambs together feed

This Parable by nature taught [sic] Breathed on me, as the south wind free On frozen streams that glow unsheathed From icy thraldome [sic], to the Sea. A blissful vision through the night Did all our happy senses sway Of the Good Shepherd on the height Of toiling up the rugged way, Holding our little Lamb asleep While, like the burden of the Sea Sounded his voice along the deep - Say [ nid ?] - "Arise & follow me."

Written by Mrs. J.R. [Lowel ?] & sent to Mrs Longfellow after the death of her child.

When our dear childs untroubled breath Up to the Father took its way And on our home the shade of Death Like a long twilight haunting lay. And friends came round with us to weep. Her gentle spirits swift remove - This story of the Alpine Sheep - Was told to us by one we love.

They, in the valleys sheltering care Soon crop the meadows tender prime & when the grass grows brown & bare The Shepherd strives to make them climb.

Menlo Park

January 4th 1895

Mrs Jane L Stanford

Dear Madam

I thank you with all my heart for the free pass from the Rail Road Company which I received yesterday with your Compliments

Two years ago this month, when I was sick with pneumonia at St Marys Hospital, you wrote me a beautiful letter which I still hold & cherish; and which the good Sisters and Dr Leonard used in encouraging me to keep up my courage & get well, and not only that but you sent me a Free Pass and advised me to go to the Southern part of the State, where I went & rapidly gained strength and I am now as healthy as any one can desire. For this I thank you especially

I still hold in my possession the old

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Pass of 1893. Money could not buy it from me. The body of the Pass is in your hand-writing & the signature is that of the late Senator Stanford, the greatest man the Country produced

I doubt if there is one other, who holds in his possession a paper which contains your hand-writing & the Governors signature Pardon me from calling the Senator Governor, which is his pet name with his admirers

Might I request of you to allow me to have the Pass embellished & framed to be presented to the Museum of the Leland Stanford Jr. University; Shall I do it now or shall I direct my heirs to attend to the matter when you & I have passed away.