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

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NUMBER	SENT BY	REC'D BY	CHECK
[Blank]	D.	G	31 Paid
Dated Mayfield 23d	Recd at Menlo Park
To Mrs Leland Stanford	June 23, 1893

Let me express to you my profound sympathy in your great sorrow, which is shared by every student of this University by Senator Stanford's death I have lost an esteemed friend

F. V. Brooks

In God's care you have my heart born sympathy But as a devoted Husband and father (to the world) a grand man has he not only preceeded you to a future home where the just reward of true and noble lives promises a lasting reunion, which an inscrutible Divinity made short here.

May Heaven bless and sustain you in your affliction

Sincerely

Mildred B. Brooks

Sept 8th/93

New York City.

June 25th 1893.

My dear Mrs. Stanford.

When I wrote you last week about my darling boy Franklin, contented and happy at Palo Alto. How little did I dream you would be reading that letter between tears. Our Heavenly Father is good and just but how poorly are we equiped to bear the burden he imposes.

Aug [18th?] 93 JLS

Mrs Leland Stanford

Dear friend

I know words are powerless to console - to which I should not aspire - I of all others whom you apparently abandoned as unworthy your remembrance and affection as so benignly bestowed upon me in times past - yet who has never ceased to love and reverence you and yours freely pardoning our long misunderstanding. Whatever its origin (of which I am, and always have been at a loss to account for our estrangement) hoping you will as freely forgive me?, pleading in the name and memory of the Blessed Guardian Angel your model husband whose immaculate life and gentle happy release from the tribulations which always beset the too good in this world "God's cherished own". Praying you will be reconciled to believe

"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die" but to live honored in memory thro' all time -

"while we have time, let us do good to all men" - can truly be said of him, not only in the hearts of those bound by ties of kindred - but in the suffering and unfortunate ones of all mankind with whom he came in

contact - truly an enviable life - and a triumphant passing gently to the bosom of "Nostro Signore". As his reward -

"I am the resurrection and the life" Saith the Lord "he that believeth in me, though he die - yet shall live". live forever in the paradise prepared by his good deeds "Be not deceived" - for "whatever a man soweth that shal[l] he reap" - we have this [immancable?] promise to rely upon - let this be your comfort - your pride - your highes[t] glory - Believe me my heart goes out to you in earnes[t] sympathy for your irreparable affliction with the deepest affection - as of yore - Sincerely yr devoted

Delia - F H Brown.

Sunday 9^th July 1893