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has trusted to your care. I hope and trust some day in the near future I may have the pleasure of meeting you and your precious gifts.
The reception given us at Sacramento was unexpected but very gratifying to Mr Stanford and myself, it was so spontanious and so hearty, coming as it did from all classes and all ages - it will never be effaced from my memory. I was touched to the innermost recesses of my heart. God bless all of our many true friends
of dear old Sacramento, and God bless you and your loved ones is my earnest prayer. The[y] all hunger for love and sympathy and no one is more conscious of this need than myself.
My husband joins me in all I have expressed. Ever your friend Jane L. Stanford
Sunday May 4th 90 Washington City, D.C.
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[note reads: Mrs Stanford re of reception given them in Sacramento, from Washington DC May 4 1890]
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My dear friend Mrs Harvey
Very many thanks for your tender letter. I always felt we held a dear place in your memory, for you and the doctor are not made of the material that change without just cause. I have thought of you often always feeling you were engaged closely and earnestly in the blessed work of rearing to noble manhood and womanhood the dear children God