Correspondence (outgoing)

[preprinted] Form No. 1

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[preprinted: Received at] DEL MONTE, CAL. 805am Apr 6 1890

[preprinted: Dated] San Fran 5

[preprinted: To] Mrs Timothy Hopkins

Mrs. Stanford desires me to thank you for your beautiful flowers and book. We hope to see you soon.

Leland Stanford

[preprinted: United States Senate. 701 K ST. NW.]

Copy of Letter of Condolence to Mr. Tracey

[right margin] letters for Museum from Mrs. Grant Blain [D?] Stanford [/right margin]

United States Senate,

WASHINGTON, D. C., ............ , 18 ...

Copy.

Washington, March 1890.

Dear Mr. Blaine

Since your great loss you have been much in my mind, but I have not felt equal to expessing satisfactorily my sympathy. Now a time has elapsed and I trust you can realize that your dear ones have gained by going from this into a higher life. But I know by experience that even though we realize this our sense of loss remains as constant as is our love. With the departure of children the hopes and ambitions of our lives in a great measure go out, and their places are never filled.

Trusting that you and

[notation: J. G. B. 2.]

[preprinted] United States Senate,

WASHINGTON D.C., .............. ,18 ... [/preprinted]

Mrs. Blaine find consolation in the assurance that your departed son and daughter have been gainers by this separation.

I remain

Your friend

(signed) Leland Stanford

[preprinted] United States Senate,

WASHINGTON, D.C., ................ , 18 ...

Copy.

Wash'ton March 1890.

Dear Mr. Tracey,

The calamity that has overtaken you while exciting my deepest sympathy has seemed to me too overwhelming for words of condolence but I know that in all afflictions time acts as an alleviator not that we love less with time the dear ones that go before us into another world, but that we realize better and better as time moves on that the separation is temporary, that the world beyond is a better one and that we shall be re-united to our loved ones.

I am satisfied that the greatest privilege that comes