Condolence letters re: death of Leland Stanford: O - P includes Palo Alto Stock Farm Employees, Alma A. Park, Geo. C. Perkins, Mary Pittenger, Amelia V.R. Pixley, Edith Taylor Pope, and Wm. H. Pratt

will live and { ?} { ?] & helped by you. {Justin?} wishes me to send his love and heart felt sympathy.

Lovingly Yours Edith Taylor Pope

San Francisco June 22/93

Dear Mrs. Stanford,

Just a few lines to tell you how deeply I sympathize with you in your trouble. It must console you to think that you watched over him so carefully until he

passed so peacefully into his last long sleep.

I know how empty these words must sound to you as I have just passed through a trial, something similar to but

so much worse, than yours.

Again assuring you of my deepest sympathy.

I remain Your sincere friend Eliza J. Porter

2017 Pine St.

HOBART COLLEGE, PRESIDENT'S ROOM. GENEVA, N. Y. June 29th 1893

Dear Mrs. Stanford

One of the instances in which a strong personality impresses us, no matter how great the distance between us, occurred to me, when arriving in Rome from the East, I thought of your son Leland, & hearing of your bereavement, joined you in Paris

you carry forward the noble work so well begun, before joining those whom you "have loved & lost awhile." With you, the sense of their being is so real; that I believe the world seem to you, not so much your loss, as their gain that they have entered before you into the realm of peace & life & immortality.

{ ?} College presents through you its tribute to your husband, as a great educator, as well as a great benefactor of mankind.

My wife joins me in loving sympathy & devout aspiration for you; & in the hope that we may welcome you { ?} home here at your convenience.

Yours faithfully {N Potter, Pottro?}

Suddenly, there came to me, not long since, so sharp an impression of conferences I had had with your husband on educational & related matters, that as I recalled his views, I said, I must impress the subject more deeply upon my mind. If I can I will persue it further with him; I will employ a part at least of my coming extended summer vacation & travel; by turning toward California, & conferring with him at the Leland Stanford Jr University. A few days later having spoken with my wife { } the subject, the news came to us that he had entered into his well earned rest. What we call death, the casting aside of a worn & weary body, had no {terrors ?} for him; his great spirit will join the spirit of his unspoiled & gifted son, both waiting while