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New York

July 5th 1893.

My Dear Mrs Stanford

Only those
who have suffered
can fully realize what
you are now enduring.
Oh! how well I know
it all, and my heart
goes out to you in
tenderest sympathy.
My own experience
teaches me that words
are comfortless, but
it has also taught me
that the sympathy
of friends is most
grateful, and none