Condolence letters re: death of Leland Stanford: N includes Mrs. A. E. Newman, John P. Newman, Mary P. Nimmo, and Joseph A. Nunez

I know you will have {?} this realized your prayers uttered after all have been bound in slumber, all these years since dear Leland left you that now there will be an open communication in some way. Now I wish we were with you because we have so freely opened our hearts. Your dear husband will not leave you alone any more than Leland dear --------------------------------------- writing in fold unreadable at this moment that they may be permitted to communicate with you all alone by yourself. Now devotedly you have cared for your noble husband, and prayed that his life might be spared to accomplish your great work.

But now you are left complete what you together have been enabled to forward so grandly. We now expect to leave here in about two weeks and reach N York about the middle of August { ?} presently. If you get this which will go out by the first mail that leave here, we will hope to hear from you by letter when we reach N.York. Dr Newman I think is writing you in the other room. We shall never forget ----------------------------------------writing in fold unreadable and when we parted that bright morning. But now it will not be long before we shall meet in the life that is eternal. Do let us know if we can do anything for you when we return. How gladly we would cross the continent to see you and impart if possible comfort to your doubly sad heart, and home.

I will assure you I shall sit much in quiet during all these days and think of you and the scenes through which you are passing. May God support you by the right hand of his strength. I seem just now to hear a whisper I wish you were with them. I wonder if it is dear Ensign. I have asked the dear spirit to send us some communication to comfort our sad hearts, for I am sure there will none aside __________________? will feel the loss as much as we do. You know our love as so often expressed, but never so deeply felt as now. I am sure you would be first to comfort me in like circumstances. I have much to tell you of our experience during our journey. I long to see you. With love and far more than I can express. Yours lovingly

ever and forever, A. E. Newman {written alongside fold}

It will be so long before you get this and how many years as it were it will seem to you. I some how feel I am in a degree with you in dear Palo Alto, as we were when the other black curtain hung over your heart and life, and how bright the sun shone there, and how beautiful the flowers and trees looked, and how much it seemed like heaven. Only the heart and the hearth stone were so desolate and now doubly so. O dear Saviour, look in loving pity on thy breasted child as I write this note of sympathy to my friend and sister the nearest and dearest in spiritual asssociation in earth-life.

will no doubt express to you his great sorrow at the loss of so dear and kind a friend one to whom no one affliction { ?{ and one who always had a kind word and { ?} hand to help those whom he could without advertizing it in the newspaper his was indeed true charity, and now that he has been taken from among us you are left as his almoner and I am sure no one will ask for help from your {?} real need without being { ?} for the sake of him who has passed away. You have our sympathy and that of the whole world especially the Western part of it for the loss the country has sustained is only

second to that which your good heart never can replace. We have a boy whose name is Edward Stanford Taylor { ?} son named after your good husband and another old friend of Mr Newmans, now that both have passed away I pray daily that he may follow in their footsteps and one day be as good and great a man as they have been. There is much in a name. Dear Mrs Stanford allow me again to say to you how I feel for you in this your hearts sorrow but no wounds can heal the { ?} but faith in God Almighty and the knowledge that you are left here to finish what he had begun in the

My Dear Mrs Stanford

Now that a little time has passed and you have become more accustomed to your great loss, allow me to express my sincerest sorrow and sympathy in this your great trouble and Californias greatest loss. The sad news I could scarcely believe as Mr Stanford did not seem to be in such feeble condition the day we visited you at Palo Alto, how very glad I am to be able to remember him as I saw him that day. Mr Newman has just returned from the other islands and

name of the beloved son that went before him and that awaits you in the hereafter.

With heartfelt sympathy I am in as ever Your friend Elise {Newsome?}

Wikiki, Honolulu Aug 8th 93

Newman

(condolence)