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much interested in the University as I do, so that I rejoice with you that it does not have to be closed. Nothing would give me more pleasure than to have my boys go there, after leaving Belmont.
I hope you may have all the success which you so surely deserve.
Believe me,
Sincerely Yours,
Elena Atherton Selby.
March 3. 1896
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#30 ansd PA Mch 8/96
FAIR OAKS.
My dear Mrs Stanford,
May I offer you my sincere congratulations for the very good news which we received yesterday?
I telephoned yesterday but could not say enough.
Very few people take as
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ever say, for you, when we knew that the sad hour of seeming parting had come, for you and the dear Governor. My father had known him long, and loved him well. And now, my dear beloved one too has passed beyond the veil - and my heart too is broken. My father
has been the one central figure in my life, best loved, most admired, even of all human beings I have ever known, and my years, accordingly have been a long, prolonged, happy girl-hood - always more of the sympathy and protection of that adored parent. I love to think
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2109 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE Washington, D.C.
Sept. 25. 1895
Dear Mrs. Stanford,
My thoughts turn so constantly toward you that I must put them into words. My father and I felt more than words can
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of them now, these two old friends as we saw them last, that evening in K Street. We might have known that they were refining, then for a better world - ah even the heavenly country. They spoke of death with perfect calmness, confidence, and assurance that for them it could be but a [?].
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not tears of bitterness, but - of sweet sorrow mourn, as those mourn who shall be comforted by the promise of Him who never, never deserts those who put their trust in Him. I know He stands by your side now - guides and sustains you - is your rock and shield. And so, I, desolate, orphaned and quite quite alone, in this strange, cold world, turn to you, dear loving friend, "that we weary be comforted together" by the faith and love that are both yours and mine.
God bless and keep you always.
Your loving friend
