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San Francisco

Mar. 18, 1896.

Dear Mrs. Windom [Ellen T.],

That you
should send your blessings
to the Leland Stanford
University has touched the
innermost depths of my
heart, and my heart
dear friend is very tender,
tender because of the
bleeding and desolate
condition it has been in
for the past three years
and because of the great
burden of anxiety which
rested upon me; tender
now in gratitude to God