Correspondence (outgoing), 1904

Tahoe Tavern Among the Pines Lake Tahoe, Cal

Copy of Mrs. Stanford's letter to Mr. Blodgett written August 14th.

Copy of telegram sent to Dr. B.C. Blodgett Sept. 10, 1904.

"As soon as I receive Mr. Brook's resignation, which I have been expecting for two weeks, I would like you to take position here as organist."

(Signed) Mrs. Leland Sanford

Miss Mary Miller -

My dear good friend.

Can you picture in your mind the heart felt pleasure your Cable dispatch gave me?

It surprised me so much that you were in Europe and still more was I surprised that you remembered the date of my birth day. I am so very [weak?] so full of [human?] nature, that as old as I am, my heart yearns and thirsts for the best the most precious of all [humane?] gifts that our

being can give another "love." this dear young friend you give me, as expressed in years of friendship and as expressed in the letter just received. Do you remember that Our Lord craved this precious [hour?] did He not ask Peter three times over ["Lovest?] Thee Me" and dear friend this quesiton to Peter is my comfort in many ways, first it excuses us, you and I for mourning for the evidences of love our loved ones gave us when they lived in mortal life, and better even than this to you and I in our loneliness, is the beautiful truth that Our Lord asks us both and he asks every child of his on earth that question. Lovest [Thee me?] You and know far a surety that you dear Mother answered that question in her every day life, that she loved our Saviour beyond a doubt. Her example of life had its effect on me, and it can not be effaced from my life here or hereafter.

My thoughts turn to you often and often, and always with your dear Mother at your side. Last winter I spent

two months and a half in Egypt. I had Bertha my Maid and Beverly my man servant with me. and thinking it would be less a responsibility to make the trip worth the while by the Steamer [Ramesis] the Great I went that way. It took three weeks each way, but we had but little enjoyment beforehand with the [one?] on the [Olga?]. It was cold, the rush for good [Donkees?], good chairs filled one with disgust. Berth and I each day said had we not already seen the Nile under such different conditions we would wonder where were its charms.