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Office of the President
Leland Stanford Junior University
Palo Alto, Santa Clara Co., Cal., July 1, 1893.
Mrs. Leland Stanford:
Dear Friend:
One of the professors has left the enclosed tribute to Mr. Stanford with me and begs that you may accept it.
Very truly yours,
David S. Jordan.
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Leland Stanford.
The great true heart has ceased to beat. The ever kindly voice is still. The hand that strove for betterment of ill, Has made its earthly work complete.
He saw with vision wondrous clear, The things that we but dimly see. He saw the "good that is to be"; And fain would help to make it near.
He cast a stone into the sea, And widening circles evermore, Shall sweep to wash the outmost shore Of far off human destiny.
June '93.
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Dear Mrs. Stanford.-
In Mr. Stanford's death the University has lost its father and we mourn for him. But with the mourning here is a strong undercurrent of gladness that he leaves us an untarnished memory. The University may well
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be proud that in days to come men shall have no fault to conceal, no weakness to condone. The young men and women who come to Palo Alto year after year shall be taught what nobility of character and sweetness of spirit marked your husband's daily life. We had hoped that he might
walk among us many years more that a thousand, even ten thousand students might learn to know him, and sometime grasp his hand.
Now it remains for us who knew and loved him to tell to others what he was.
May God comfort you.
June 25, 1893.
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Los Angeles Orphan Asylum
Boyle Heights June 22, 1893.
Dear Mrs. Stanford,
Having just been apprised of your sad and sudden bereavement in the death of your esteemed husband, I hasten to tender you, the sincere and heartfelt sympathy of our entire community and the four hundred Orphans under our Care assuring you that our fervent prayers, will be offered, at the throne of