Jane Lathrop Stanford Papers

Vallejo Township Sonoma Co. Cal

Jan 20th 1891

Mrs Leland Stanford

Respected Madam,

Please receive the accompanying verses, which were composed by my son, Alfred J. Puckett, while confined to his bed, by a shot which sent a bullet into his breast, he is my only child, and he was so very much disappointed that he was not able to attend the unveiling of that statue, that will be a monument to your thought