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you for a donation toward our much needed improvements, but we cannot brook one days delay in expressing our ardent and heartfelt thanks for the princely sum you have contributed through our kind energetic friends on committee
May the Giver of all good things liberally reward you for your generous charity here, and unite you hereafter in His adorable and loving Heart to your darling Child who, we have no doubt, is already in the enjoyment of the Beatific Vision, in a blissful eternity.
For him, and for you, kind generous Benefactors the prayers of our Community shall be daily offered while a stone shall remain upon a stone
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Mrs. Sartoris and her family deeply appreciate you kind sympathy and thank you sincerely for the beautiful flowers
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Leland Stanford, Jr. Museum Jul 20 1903
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writes & knowing how many friends you had & how much you were obliged to entertain I felt that I should only be a wet blanket in all you pleasure & that therefore I should be obliged to deny myself the pleasure of coming to you as I should so much like to have done. Mama wishes me to thank you for your last letter to her & to give you her love & to say that she hopes you &
Senator Stanford will come to New York before I sail for England on the 23rd of next month. She says she is afraid it is perfectly hopeless to ask you to come here & stay with her but she & I both hope very much that when you do come you will keep one or two evenings free to spend with us, as we both want so much to see you Please remember us to Senator Stanford & with love to yourself in which Mama joins me believing
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me again with many thanks for your kind invitation
Affectily yrs. Lillie [?] G. Sartoris
New York Feb. 15th '89
Mr. dear Mrs. Stanford
I cannot tell you how deeply I appreciate your kindness in asking me to visit you this month with my mother & how much I wish I could have accepted you kind invitation, but you know that I am in mourning & not going out at all this