Correspondence (outgoing), 1898 Jan-May

Dr. C. G. Lathrop

My dear brother

Yesterday was a week since I came here to get well. I feared a last illness was coming. I suffered mentally and physically beyond human endurance and all from intense excitemen [sic] I should not have been subjected to. I was called to the City yesterday to sign checks and I feel releived that progress has at last been made, but at a cost of my health. I intend now to get away next week. I leave this quiet and healthful place next Monday morning and two or three days I hope will be suffici -ent to finish up. I have concluded to go to Washington see Mr Hun -tzman about the house in Washington. It will save me a trip the 4th of March. I will

designate what to send to Cal and what to sell. Our lease is up on the 4th of March. Mr. Wilson said Mr. Easton had invited his wife and Mrs. [M?] Wilson to return with her, and he expected she would leave next Tuesday and if he did not finish up my work he would join me in Chicago. I don't know how it will end. I am not well enough to have company go back with me. I need quiet and rest all I can get - excitement the Dr. tells must be avoided and I know it full well myself.

I am thankful you keep well. Health is a blessing from God. I recived [sic] a [?]of horse sale on the 18th. I am glad the number is being reduced in this way

Trusting your loved ones are well I am as always your loving sister

Jane L. Stanford

Jan 22nd, 1898

Lakewood New Jersey

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take a special interest in the coming of this boy and the joy that would fill your hearts when here. You were always so tender and kind to me even before my last great sorrow came. Dear Mrs. Richardson has held a special place in my heart ever since I first met her. Your home life always seemed to sweet to me but it lacked the crowning joy of a child.

In the face of this dear precious son it can trace a resemblance to both of the parents. What a bright face and what a fine head. Oh! how you must love this dear boy, and I hope and I pray most sincerely that God in His great goodness will spare this son to you, to be a comfort and a staff in your declining years as he now is a joy unspeakable.

I remember when my dear boy came to me, if I woke up in the night I would go into the next room and look at him and re-assure myself that he was mine and that I had a

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[Feb. 10, 1898]

Professor & Mrs. Richardson.

Highly prized friends.

The photograph of your precious son and your kind note I find on my desk this morning. They came while I was in the East, and although I have been home for several days my first attention had to be given to business letters, and I now take up the social ones and yours is the first.

I am so pleased to have this photograph, more pleased than you can imagine for I did

[left side] a son. And I well remember how my heart would throb when I first woke up in the morning with the thought that I had a son, and it throbs still with the beautiful promise the comforter has given me, that I am the mother of a son who perhaps is one of Gods chosen messengers. I picture him clothed in shining garments that the Saints wear who live in the presence of God the Father. There was a niche in Heaven that needed a special chosen one to fill