Jane Lathrop Stanford Papers

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the thinghs [sic] they are able and well fitted by experience and age to do. I am sure no one thinks less of you for what has transpired, your friends are very many and beleive [sic] in you and I doubt if the others can feel the same about themselves.

We shall start for Cal the 1st of April - for only a very short stay will be here again within the month if all goes well with us. I hope we will find you there to look at you both will be a pleasure and I hope and trust Lydia is well by this time. I am greatly relieved about my sister although I never for one moment thought there was anything malignant the matter with her. It was

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really a case of effect of mind over matter. I have had a sore anxiety and it nearly made me ill. We will go away for six weeks to Europe going June 12th. I want to get away from care, letters of distress and anxieties. We will go alone only Mr. Nash and I am reveling already in the anticipated peace quiet restfulness of the voyage.

Mr. Stanford is much better health than when we left Cal and while so very many here have been so seriously ill he was by God's mercy escaped. Mr. Blaine is very ill now with the Grippe. We have tried to live regular and to avoid giving dinners. I gave four luncheons that exempted Mr. Stanford from

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more trunks! I am afraid all your old closets are empty - or else Palo Alto is too far from Massachusetts! I had a little glimpse of Judge Strong and his daughters the other day. He was looking wonderfully well.

Please remember me most cordially to Mr Nash and believe me with a great deal of love

Your very affectionate

Anna L. Dawes

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in as I used to do in Washington.

We have all been at home together since Father and I came back from the Indian Territory in April, and nothing special has happened to us since the Golden Wedding. I wish you might have been here for that, it was so very pleasant and so delightful an occasion. I suppose Father

PROVIDED, however, that if either should die before the younger attains the age of twenty-five years, this trust shall cease and determine as to one-half of said one-third of a million dollars and that proportion of the trust property shall belong and be delivered to the children of the one so dying, or if there be no such children, then to the other; and the trust shall thereafter continue as to the other one-half of said one-third of a million dollars until the survivor reaches the age of twenty-five years, at which time the trust as to the remainder of said one-third of a million dollars shall cease and determine and the property shall belong to and be delivered to said survivor, but if such survivor dies before attaining such age of twenty-five years this trust shall then cease and determine and the trust property shall belong to and be delivered to his or her children, or if there be none such, then to his or her heirs at law.

II.

I give and bequeath to my brother CHARLES GARDNER LATHROP the sum of One Million ($1,000,000) Dollars.

III.

I give and bequeath to HERBERT C. NASH, the devoted tutor and loving friend of my dear son, also faithful secretary of my dear husband, the sum of Fifteen Thousand ($15,000) Dollars.

IV.

I give and bequeath to MISS BERTHA BERNER, secretary and devoted friend to me through seventeen years of trial and sorrow, the sum of Fifteen Thousand ($15,000) Dollars.

V.

To the following faithful and devoted servants, MRS. CHARLES ROBERTSON, housekeeper for twelve years; to CHARLES WOOSTER, coach-

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Mrs Timothy Hopkins re Mrs. Hewes

Royal Bath Hotel

Bournemouth

My dear Mrs Stanford,

Though Tim tells me I must not write yet still I feel as if I could not rest any longer without writing you a few lines. Dear friend how much you have been in our thoughts & hearts I cannot express for our sympathy & love has gone out so so sincerely since the loss of your sister.

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sails from Liverpool on the 7^th. We had planned to go then to Switzeland [sic] as England is quite cold but hardly dare risk it on account of the Cholera. We hope you will keep as far as possible away from infected places. My kindest regards to Mr Stanford & Mr Nash & with love from Lydia to her "Auntie Stanford

Your's affectionately

M. Th. Hopkins

Sept 2nd 92

P.S. Tim sends his best wishes & love & hopes your all quite well.

I make no provision for my husband's brothers, Phillip Stanford or Thomas Welton Stanford, or his niece's or nephew's or the children of my brother Charles Gardner Lathrop, for the reason that my dear husband provided generously for them in his will.

I give and bequeath to Herbert C. Nash, the devoted tutor and loving friend of my dear son, also faithful Secretary of my dear husband the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000) in gold coin.

I give and bequeath to Miss Bertha Berner Secretary and devoted friend to me through fifteen years of trial and sorrow the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000) in gold coin.

To the following faithful and devoted servants, Mrs. Charles Robertson, housekeeper for twelve years; to Charles Wooster coachman for thirty five years; to Edward Largley,

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Jane L. Stanford

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