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Joseph Cairn Simpson
2111 Adeline St.
Oakland, Cal.

January 1st 1895

Mrs. Leland Stanford

Dear Madame - Yesterday's mail brought
a complimentary ticket S.P.C.R.R. from the year
1896. very welcome on several accounts. Coming
at a time when pecuniarily it was acceptable,
this present being through your kindness gave it
additional value. In fact a value far
overrating all others. Had I never met you
I should have felt that it was a gift from a
man whom I more highly esteemed than any
other, sans near relations, and, while his memory
will always be cherished, further evidence of his
warm heartedness so frequently exhibited during the
years I was thought worthy of his intimate acquaintances.

From the first time I met you I was struck
with the resemblance between husband and wife
in the features which elicited fervent admiration,
and thereafter both were associated in my mind with
the good works, far greater good, more lasting
good than ever two people accomplish on this
continent.

It may seem out of place for one
to do more than to make an acknowledgement
of this favor granted, though a more formal
reply would be so contrary to my feelings, that