Condolence letters re: death of Leland Stanford: Bl - Br includes Jas. G. Blaine, Jr. (Tel.), Henry W. Blair, John Bonness, J.H.C. Bonté, F.O. Boyd, and John Boyd

Telegram San Jose, June 21. 93

Sincerest sympathy. Can I do anything to lighten your sorrow, command me.

(signed) C. W. Breyfogle

and his genial temperament taught me a lesson which I pray that I may never forget. I know that envy is a sin and brings its penalty with it, but if it ever was pardonable it is that which I feel when I think of the grand purposes of yourself and Gov. Stanford, which have already made, and will, more and more as the years go by, make the whole world better because you have lived.

I was deeply impressed when a prominent educator in another instituion than yours, told me that on Saturday he made it a point to wander about and listen to the remarks of those assembled, and in every instance they were of universally one character - a deep sense of personal loss. We know that the multitude who, with such unexampled unanimity greive over his loss as that of the loss of a personal freind and benefactor, are all praying that your health and strength may be left to them and to the age.

Pardon me for my intrusion, but Mrs Breyfogle and I felt that we must tell you how we greive for him and pray for you.

Thanking you for the honor you did me in enrolling me among your freinds. I beg to remain

Devotedly Yours

C. W. Breyfogle

OFFICE OF C. W. BREYFOGLE, M. D.

San Jose, Cal. June 27th 1893

Dear Mrs Stanford.

I have waited to take a place among the humblest of your freinds in expressing the sympathy and sorrow with which my own heart and those of my family are full. While I remember most vividly your frequent expression of deep trust in that Divinity which is our only source of consolation, I am fully assured that your uncommon fortitude, added to that trust, will sustain you. I cannot tell you how sincerely I became attached to Senator Stanford. His great character, his noble heart

San Francisco, June 21/93

Dear Mrs. Stanford;

Accept my heartfelt sympathy in your sad affliction.

Georgia Brinkley.

NUMBER	SENT BY	REC'D BY	CHECK
SF	F	ay	13pd 6 20p

RECEIVED at Menlo Park Calif June 21 1893

Dated New York 21

To Mrs Leland stanford palo alto Menlo.

Please accept the sincere condolence and tender sympathy of Mrs Bristow and myself

B H Bristow