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Two [2] TLS to C.P. Huntington, Stillman and Hubbard, and Chas. F. Crocker, loan Speyer and Co., obligations of Pacific Improvement Co. Sep 14, 1894; ALS to [John F.] Lewis. Tells him to sell no more wines by small quantities especially to people around Palo Alto proper. Sep 23, 1894; TL to Justice Stephen J. Field. Re. Field's resignation from the board of Trustees. Oct 27, 1894; ALS to May and Timothy Hopkins. Suit over Hopkins' inheritance, Mrs. Hopkins-Searls. 1894 Nov; ALS to May Hopkins. Acknowledges flowers. Is not well. Returning via Canadian Pacific. Dec 16, 1894; Tel. [written copy] to T.H. Hubbard. Mexican International RR [1894?]



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Mr Lewis Wine Celler [sic] Palo. Alto.

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Palo Alto Menlo Park, Cal. Nov 1894

My very dear friends May and Tim

This is the first leisure afternoon I can call my own since the 1st, my thoughts and my prayers have gone forth to you and my faith in our Good all Wise Father is such, that I feel no concernes as to the final outcome of the suit so important to you both. Justice to the one who held her name dear and whose naturel [sic] refinement would recoile [sic] in horror could she best know how her [message ?] is reviled and by those who are must endebted to her for the [luxeries - sic] comforts

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they are enjoying at her expense, justice from on High and from the better nature of man will call for a truer and better dispensation of the funds so unlawfully and so wickedly obtained. Every word of the testimony in the Examiner was eagerly read by us, we could scarcely wait for the news to reach us - The Examiner's sale must have been very large for all rich and poor, old and young are intensely interested in the matter and with one voice in favor of [ ?] [hever ?] has a suit caused such a sensation for it is the universal opinion that the deepest laid schemes ever planned has been brought to bear upon one who feel too easily into the trap - My opinion of my dear friend Mrs Hopkins has not changed because of these

we cannot but feel has been wronged - At the old Salem jury, lawyers and judges, look at the sweet faces who have been wronged, and contrast them with the one who adroitly weaned this loved one gone from all she once held dearest to her heart - there can only be seen on your faces honesty and purity - and to day you are the only true mourner for the one passed on to give account for deeds done while in the body. I can never reconcile the woman named Searls as being the one whom I knew and loved as Mrs Hopkins, the latter I remember as being refined

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to the extreme, cultivated, highly inteligent [sic] and gifted with a most wonderful memory - for whatever she read and she was a great reader she could repeat, her conversational powers were rare, and those whom she loved she opened to them all these choice qualities, and I was one of the favored in this respect. I admired her greatly and felt flattered that she showed evidence of careing [sic] for me, and I love her still. As I remember her as Mrs Hopkins- as Mrs Searles I have not known her for I have seen her but three or four times, and only for a few moments. I felt that a barrier had arisen between us which was a mystery to me, and not to be explained. But since this last epoch in her

life has taken place, all is made clear to me - she was under an influence she could not break from, she was not her own master. Consequently I feel pity sorrow and love for her; I believe she would have put her arms around me as of old, if she had dared, she could not break the spell which bound her - And if I feel thus how much more reason you have to feel that this is true, for I know how dearly she loved Tim until she came under the evil influence - You are the only ones who can place her before the world as being worthy of your respect and love, and do not falter in doing that for which she herself could she speak would thank you for justifying her before the world - I am very sorry you

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acts, she was trusting and unspecting, and the deepness of the plot, so well carried out and she being kept from all who might enlighten her and she died without being able to see one whome [sic] she might have revealed her suspicions too [sic] - I felt as if I would like to take the stand and tell my opinion of my old friend, that her naturel [sic] refinement her proud spirit would never have permitted her to make a proposal of marriage to any man even had she felt an interest in him, this uncalled for information on Searls part was contemptable to the lowest degree he sunk to the most debased condition in the estimation of every pure unrided woman, and the men have a code among themselves in regards to our sex that will

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