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April 20th 84
Dear young friend
Mrs May Hopkins
I am so grieved at my own conduct I am going to make a confession to you dear May. I never deserve such attentions as you and dear Tim have given me, my long delayed acknowledgement of your sweet Easter gift explains itself. Do not think I received it and your love with indifference on the
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contrary I was very much touched and flattered - that there were some left that remembered us with tenderness. All these festive days bring added sorrowful remembrances of the dear past. I think dear May of the Easter when at Vienna we received the lovely Mouchoir Case you sent of Blue Satin with the lovely Pink Satin crushed Roses on the top. We all exclaimed "How beautiful the gift but how much more beautiful the thoughts that prompted the gift." I cannot tell you how dear it seemed to me. I had it laid out just to look at, on all the journey
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with such tender loving memories, the birds sing more sweetly there, and the trees and flowers are so much more beautiful. The past two days have been exceptional, as they have resembled our fall climate more than at any period before this winter. It has been cold and the wind so [searching?]
Give our best wishes to dear Tim and accept for yourself my tenderest interest in all that concerns you.
Yours ever Jane L. Stanford Windsor Hotel April 20th
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CABLE MESSAGE THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY
31 Florence
To Mrs Mark Hopkins Received at Stanford 401a Mar 13 1884 San Francisco California
Our darling boy was taken from us this morning after an illness of three weeks with Typhoid fever pray for us
Leland and Jane Stanford
