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[preprinted] CALUMET PLACE, WASHINGTON, D. C. [/preprinted]

Mar. 14th 1889.

Dear Senator Stanford

I intended to see you before you left Washington to thank you for your generous contribution to my fund, and for the grand letter which accompanied it; but was detained longer than I expected to be. I am deeply touched by your appreciation of my dear husband's great