Correspondence (incoming): Blaine, James and Harriet, 1891-1896

the family thanks, with love of yours

Affectionately

Harriet S. Blaine

Sunday Evening

note thrust into a package of papers. I suppose that I was called away while writing you to thank you for the comfort you women have given me after the deaths of Walker and Alice.

Had Walker lived he would have been thirty five yesterday. I need not say to you, that these two children are with us every hour, as surely as are those who three times a day sit at table with us.

It was very sweet in you, to remember me so thoughtfully, & I am son [sic] affectionately & gratefully yours, Harriet S. Blaine

My Dear Mrs. Stanford

I wish to thank you for all your kind ministrations - in the two great troubles which have overtaken me.

The little book, especially the marked passages, interested me much, for whatever has done you good, ought to benefit me. Thirty five years ago, when my eldest - & then only - child died, this very book was sent to me. And now your flowers, sweet, fresh & promising have come.

Washington, May 8th

Dear Mrs. Stanford — Mr [AugAnt] has just found this unfinished