Correspondence (incoming): Se - Shaw, 1893-1903

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I long for some good, sweet, quiet talks with you. I have seen, felt, learned so much of the things we both care for most. It is not impossible, though hardly probable, that I go to Southern California before the spring, and if I do - I shall seek you, dear, dear friend, that we may weep together.

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2109 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. Washington Sept 25. 1893.

Venice, the 7th March 1903

Dear Mrs. Leland Stanford,

Our Superior, Archbishop Ignatius Ghiuzekian, has received your letter of February 16th; and according to your wish, he returns to you the Check of Five hundred and fifteen Franks, which I here with inclose. [sic]

I beg you to accept the compliments of the Archbishop.

Yours faithfully

P. Grégoire Selal {?ariste}

P. Gregoire Selal

Venice Mar 7 - 1903

ansd PA Mch 8/96 #31

DEPOT HOTEL. COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS' HEADQUARTERS W. J. GILLESPIE, PROPRIETOR.

Redding, Cal., March 2 1896

Mrs J. L. Stanford

San Francisco, Cala

My dear Madam.

My brother has addressed me by wire of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, respecting the "Stanford Estate."

Inasmuch as you did me a very great favor once I was very much interested the outcome of the case, as I knew that the decision from what I had learned through the newspapers would in all probability be filed yesterday I asked that the result be telegraphed, which it was

I can well see how

DEPOT HOTEL Redding, Cal

does not punish him for his misgivings to his friend. I am sure that his lot will not be pleasant in the word to come when he gazes upon his benefactor & thinks of what he has been guilty of.

If I am correctly informed he was for some time trying to get into this case.

My father died last Sunday morning, and I have been considerably indifferent as to the worlds affairs for some days, but I have not forgotten your kindness to me and while anything I may have wished for or even prayed for to the end that you would be successful in the case of United States