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[Identification of item], Lee-Jackson Foundation Collection, WLU Coll 0170, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Lee-Jackson Foundation of Charlottesville, Va.
Scope and Contents
The sixteen R.E. Lee items cover a date span of 22 years from 1847 through 1869. There are ten letters of Mrs. Mary Randolph Custis Lee ranging from the early 1850s to shortly before her death in 1873.
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Lee, Agnes
- Lee, George Washington Custis
- Lee, Mary Randolph Custis, 1807-1883
- Lee, Mildred Childe, 1846-1905
- Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870
- Lee, Robert E., Jr., 1843-1914
- Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1837-1891
- Maury, Matthew Fontaine
Container List
- Text box: 1 folder: 1
Robert E. Lee to "My dear Major"1847-02-28English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 2
Robert E. Lee to Joseph G. Totten1853-01-06English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 3
Robert E. Lee to William J. Clarke1861-10-11English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 4
Robert E. Lee to Major Harman1862-04-18English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 5
Robert E. Lee to "My dear Madame"1862-09-23English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 6
Robert E. Lee to Isaac Trimble1863-03-21English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 7
Robert E. Lee to Gov. John Letcher1863-10-31English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 8
Robert E. Lee to Richard Ewell1864-05-10English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 9
Robert E. Lee to Mrs. Margaret B. Daingerfield1865-03-01English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 10
Robert E. Lee to Richard S. Maury1865-07-31English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 11
Robert E. Lee (circular letter) from Near Cartersville1865-07-31English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 12
Robert E. Lee to Matthew Fontaine MauryPhysical Location: This item is housed in the Secure Cabinet. Maury, Matthew FontaineLee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-18701865-09-08English.Scope and Contents
In this letter From Cartersville, Va, Lee writes to Maury that he is disappointed in the government but that he wants to continue trying to make it better. He advises Maury against his ideas about starting a settlement of ex-Confederates and other immigrants. A transcription of this letter is housed with the original.
- Text box: 1 folder: 13
Robert E. Lee to Richard S. Maury1865-09-11English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 14
Robert E. Lee to Major W. I. Hawks1866-01-08English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 15
Robert E. Lee to John W. Truslow1868-03-07English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 16
Robert E. Lee to Dr. A. G. Bledsoe1869-05-15English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 17
Printed funeral announcement re Robert E. Lee1870-10-15English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 18
Agnes Lee to Mrs. Richard L. Maury1867-01-14English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 19
Alfred Lee to N. Burwell, 2 notesEnglish.
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Alfred Lee to N. Burwell1852-02-10vEnglish.
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Alfred Lee to N. Burwell, N.D.English.
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- Text box: 1 folder: 20
Arthur Lee -- court copy of his will made on 1792-07-071803-08-26English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 21
Arthur Lee printed copy of his, "An Appeal to the Justice and Interests of the People of Great Britain, in the Present Disputes with America"1775English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 22
Charles Lee to Joseph Nourse1791-10-10English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 23
Charles Lee to James McHenry1801-11-28English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 24
Charles Lee to William A. Washington1802-09-28English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 25
Charles Carter Lee to Nat Burwell1848-02-01English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 26
Charles Carter Lee to Nat Burwell1848-06-25English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 27
Charlotte W. Lee to Nat Burwell1853-04-30English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 28
Edmund Jennings Lee to Alexander Brown1892-10-11English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 29
Edmund Jennings Lee to Alexander Brown1892-10-22English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 30
Edmund Jennings Lee to "My dear Sir"1892-12-30English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 31
Francis Lightfoot Lee to "My dearest"1780-07-05English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 32
Fitzhugh Lee to "General"1865-09-30English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 33
Fitzhugh Lee, Received of Charles Kerr1875-11-11English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 34
Fitzhugh Lee to Charlie G. Kerr1877-09-22English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 35
Fitzhugh Lee to Charlie G. Kerr1877-10-09English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 36
Fitzhugh Lee to Charlie G. Kerr1877-10-24English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 37
Fitzhugh Lee to Charlie G. Kerr1878-12-27English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 38
Fitzhugh Lee to Mr. Warfeild1880-01-12English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 39
Fitzhugh Lee to Charlie Kerr1883-01-04English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 40
Fitzhugh Lee to Charlie Kerr1883-12-20English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 41
Fitzhugh Lee to Charlie Kerr1884-01-05English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 42
Fitzhugh Lee to Samuel M. Duncan1885-04-20English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 43
Fitzhugh Lee to "My dear General"1894-05-17English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 44
Fitzhugh Lee to Eliot Danforth1898-04-14English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 45
George Washington Custis Lee1862-12-26English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 46
George Washington Custis Lee to Thomas F. Balfe1871-05-10English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 47
George Washington Custis Lee, concerning Mrs. A. M. Fitzhugh's estate1875-03-20English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 48
George Washington Custis Lee to Harry C. Hines1876-09-30English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 49
Thos. E. Marshall, Jr. to Edmund R. Cocke1893-09-04English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 50
Mary Anna Randolph Custis LeeLee, Mary Randolph Custis, 1807-1883Two letters appear laminated.English.
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1850s
- Text box: 1 folder: 50
Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee to "My dear Abbey"1850-08-22English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 50
Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee to "Dear Brother"1852-02-15English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 50
Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee [to Mr. L.]1859-02-11English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 50
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1860s
- Text box: 1 folder: 50
Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee to Abbey L. Cook1865-01-27English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 50
Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee [to Benson J. Lossing]1867-06-12English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 50
Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee to "My dear Letty"1868-05-22English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 50
Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee to Unknown1869-08-29English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 50
Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee to "My dear Miss Letty"English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 50
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1870s
- Text box: 1 folder: 50
Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee to Unknown1873-09-16English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 50
Note in the same pocket would appear to be from the 1870s.English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 50
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- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 51
Mary R. Custis Lee to Mrs. Cocke1868English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 52
Mary Custis Lee (daughter), concerning estate of A. M. Fitzhugh1875-03-20English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 53
Mildred Lee to Preston Cocke, N.D.English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 54
Midred Lee to M. F. Maury, Jr.1874-01-04English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 55
Midred Lee to Mary1896-08-20English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 56
Midred Lee to Elizabeth Cocke1881-08-25English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 57 1778-10-21English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 58 1781-08-02English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 58A 1785-01-04English.
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 59 1885English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 60
Robert E. Lee, Jr. to Edmund R. Cocke1866-01-14 English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 61
Robert E. Lee, Jr., concerning estate of A. M. Fitzhugh1875-03-20English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 62
Robert E. Lee, Jr. to E. R. Cocke1913-03-01English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 63
Robert E. Lee, III to Edmund R. Cocke1913-03-17English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 64
Robert E. Lee, III to Edmund R. Cocke1914-10-31English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 65 1852-02-15English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 66 1875-03-20English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 67
Photographic scrapbook relating to Robert E. Lee, N. D.English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 68
George Washington Parke Custis to L. Littlejohn1817-06-23English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 69
George Washington Parke Custis to Philip R. Ferndale1830-03-12English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 70
George Washington Parke Custis to "Dearest Wife & Daughter"1839-09-16English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 71
George Washington Parke Custis to William Seward1850-03-15English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 72 1850-10-15English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 73
George Washington Parke Custis to Benson Lossing1855-12-02 English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 74 English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 75
Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis to "My dear Lucretia", N.D.English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 1
P. G. T. Beauregard to I. Frank Howe?1865-12-22English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 1
P. G. T. Beauregard to Laure Beauregard Larendon1879-04-02English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 1
P. G. T. Beauregard to Judge Alf. Roman1882-10-25English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 1
P. G. T. Beauregard reply to John L. Manning1861-05English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 2
Thomas N. Burwell to Edward Carrington1810-06-12English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 3
Teller's Receipt, First National Bank of Alexandria, Va.1865-08-07English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 3
Will of Mrs. A. M. Fitzhugh1873-09-05English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 4
D. I. Markey to Benjamin Hallowell1851-04-10English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 4
Mr. Ayers to Benjamin Hallowell1851-04-17English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 4 1873-11-14English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 5
D. H. Hill to Hon. John W. Ellis1861-06-16English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 6
Jed Hotchkiss to his wife1873-06-30English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 7
Gen. Edward Johnson to S. C. P. Mitlan1862-01-17English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 8
Gen. Edward Johnson to Col. Johnson1861-08-06English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 9
Lt. J. E. Johnston to "Captain"1841-09-08English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 9
Gen. J. E. Johnston to Maj. Gen. Jackson1862-05-27English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 9
Gen. J. E. Johnston to Maj. Gen. Wilson1866-02-04English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 9
Gen. J. E. Johnston to Prof. J. L. Cabell, M. D.1870-07-30English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 9
Gen. J. E. Johnston to Col. C. H. Andrews1874-12-09English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 10
"In Memoriam. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston," Sermon by Rev. A. T. Porter, D. D.1891English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 11
Margaret Junkin to Mr. Sartain1852-02-11English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 11
Margaret Junkin to Mr. Sartain, Jan. 14 (no year)English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 12
"For Sarah Ann" from "My brotherinlaw, Wm. P. McKune"1850-09-15English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 13
"Nellie" to "My dear little sister"1874-08-08English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 14
E. F. Paxton to Samuel I. Campbell1863-04-27English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 15
Frank Preston to Unknown1797-07-08English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 16
Rockbridge County Election Record1860English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 17
Gen. Winfield Scott and others, battle orders to Commander/Capt. Dahlgren1861 and N.D.English.