Condolence letters re: death of Leland Stanford: He - Hi includes Phebe A. Hearst, David Hewes, E.E. Hewitt, Jennie E. Hill, and Nellie Adelaide Hillyer

Tax Collector of Los Angeles County, Cal.

E.E.Hewitt Collector

Los Angeles, Cal. June 23rd 1893

My Dear Mr Gage

I sincerely regret that I will be unable to attend the funeral of our old and often proven friend, the Governor. I am so situated that it is impossible for me to leave, and to say that I am sorry that it is so, does not convey a correct idea of my feelings on the subject. I can think of a thousand things to say, but every suggestion seems idle and insignificant in comparison with the occasion. You and I knew and appreciated the unbounded grandeur of his character - were the recipients of his unselfish friendship, and realize that no language can express our feelings

Sincerely Love

E.E. Hewitt

Hon S.T. Gage San Francisco

THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY

RECEIVED at M P June 21 1893

Dated Sanfran

To Mrs Leland Stanford

You have my profoundest sympathy in this the hour of your great affliction may the Christian faith in the immortality of the dance and union beyond the grave sustain you in this great trial

S G Hilborn

again. The news of his death was a great shock to my father and mother, and they mourn his loss sadly. We have all longed very much to see him again, but it was not so to be. Dear friend, I do not hope that any words of mine can comfort you, I can only grieve with and for you, and pray most earnestly that the dear Lord may sustain and comfort you. I know your heart is in the blessed home where your dear ones are together, and how sweet will be the reunion when you meet them again. One

by one the links that bind us to earth are broken, and it must be best, yet it is hard to spare dear friends we have known so long. My father and mother send to you their deepest sympathy, my father regrets so much that his rapidly failing sight prevents his writing to you himself, as he earnestly wished to do. May God bless, comfort and keep you, in the fervent prayer of your loving sorrowful friend

Jennie E. Hill

Fowler

June 22nd/93

Dear Mrs Stanford

I feel as if I ought to ask your forgiveness for intruding on your grief, yet it seemed as if I could not wait to tell you of the sorrow and sympathy that filled my heart, when I heard that dear Mr Stanford had left us. The dear friend I have known and loved so many years, it does not seem possible that I am not to see him

For sent with a grief healed not by time Thy lesson merged in service sublime.

And thy soul's true greatness was emphasized Amid all its grief and its yearning. When the dead boy's thought materialized In this Chaste Temple of Learning. And an angel smiled through Sorrow's rift, O'er the grand, unique Memorial Gift.

Ah! this service earth but feebly requites, And eternity only can measure: Yet myriad souls that here climbed the hights [sic] Because of thy princely Gift's treasure.

Will shine as Stars in thy glory's crown, And cover thy name with deathless renown.

Far better, then; in wide reaching intent,Than the marble's pretentious endeavor Is this grand, imperishable monument, Thy claim to remembrance forever: While Palo-Alto, neath her sunny sky, Shelters his precious dust who cannot die.

Mrs Kate R. Hill,

Vassar, Mich.