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approbation of my Heavenly Father, His son Jesus Christ, His holy Mother, dear Saint Joseph, and last and not least my dear husband and dear son.
I thank you most sincerely for your interest and I hope I may be worthy of the continuance of the same.
Yours gratefully
Mrs Leland Stanford
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Form No. 1 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. INCORPORATED 21,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This an UNREPEATED MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. THOS. T. ECKERT, President and General Manager.
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G.S.A. yours therein Anna H. Shaw signed Mrs. Leland Stanford Party unknown. Grand Rapids, Mich.
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San Francisco
March 21, 1896.
Dear Mrs. [Anna H] Clarkson,
I should have been disappointed if I had not heard from you. My heart went out to you and dear Mrs. Platt, also Mrs. Clark, you were all so tender and kind when in New York, when my heart was heavy and for this reason I expected that you would rejoice that this burden had been lifted. I have not been jubilant or joyous because the fact remains that my
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husband can never be at my side here on earth, to help bear the burden which will naturally follow in settling up the estate, and caring for the University but God in His great goodness has been sheltering me in His arms and to Him, the superior judge of all judges, I give grateful thanks every day that He united Heaven with earth to bring about justice. I am so thankful that my dear husbands name and character are left to the students of
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the University - as an ideal to imitate. This, and the vindication of his life work, are more to me than the gaining of the estate and as Hiram Galf said, "By the Grace of God he was a shoemaker," I say, By the Grace of God I am the humble instrument left here alone, to carry out the Master's will and the will of my loved ones in Heaven - and I hope that I will be able to so administer upon what will come to me, as to meet the approbation of the many loyal friends who
