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Lee-Jackson Foundation collection WLU.Coll.0170


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Repository
Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives
Identification
WLU.Coll.0170
Title
Lee-Jackson Foundation collection 1775-1913
Quantity
1.25 Linear Feet, 3 boxes
source
Lee-Jackson Foundation
Language
English .

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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.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • American Confederate voluntary exiles
  • Confederate States of America
  • Correspondence
  • Lee, Agnes
  • Lee, George Washington Custis
  • Lee, Mary Randolph Custis, 1807-1883
  • Lee, Mildred Childe, 1846-1905
  • Lee, Robert E., Jr., 1843-1914
  • Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1837-1891
  • Lee-Jackson Foundation
  • Mexico

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
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Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Mexico
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Container List

Letters, 1775-1913
Text box: 1 English.
  • 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. Totten
    1853-01-06English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 3
    Robert E. Lee to William J. Clarke
    1861-10-11English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 4
    Robert E. Lee to Major Harman
    1862-04-18English.
  • 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 Trimble
    1863-03-21English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 7
    Robert E. Lee to Gov. John Letcher
    1863-10-31English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 8
    Robert E. Lee to Richard Ewell
    1864-05-10English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 9
    Robert E. Lee to Mrs. Margaret B. Daingerfield
    1865-03-01English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 10
    Robert E. Lee to Richard S. Maury
    1865-07-31English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 11
    Robert E. Lee (circular letter) from Near Cartersville
    1865-07-31English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 12
    Robert E. Lee to Matthew Fontaine Maury
    Physical 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. Maury
    1865-09-11English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 14
    Robert E. Lee to Major W. I. Hawks
    1866-01-08English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 15
    Robert E. Lee to John W. Truslow
    1868-03-07English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 16
    Robert E. Lee to Dr. A. G. Bledsoe
    1869-05-15English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 17
    Printed funeral announcement re Robert E. Lee
    1870-10-15English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 18
    Agnes Lee to Mrs. Richard L. Maury
    1867-01-14English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 19
    Alfred Lee to N. Burwell, 2 notes
    English.
    • Alfred Lee to N. Burwell
      1852-02-10vEnglish.
    • Alfred Lee to N. Burwell, N.D.
      English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 20
    Arthur Lee -- court copy of his will made on 1792-07-07
    1803-08-26English.
  • 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 Nourse
    1791-10-10English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 23
    Charles Lee to James McHenry
    1801-11-28English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 24
    Charles Lee to William A. Washington
    1802-09-28English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 25
    Charles Carter Lee to Nat Burwell
    1848-02-01English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 26
    Charles Carter Lee to Nat Burwell
    1848-06-25English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 27
    Charlotte W. Lee to Nat Burwell
    1853-04-30English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 28
    Edmund Jennings Lee to Alexander Brown
    1892-10-11English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 29
    Edmund Jennings Lee to Alexander Brown
    1892-10-22English.
  • 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 Kerr
    1875-11-11English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 34
    Fitzhugh Lee to Charlie G. Kerr
    1877-09-22English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 35
    Fitzhugh Lee to Charlie G. Kerr
    1877-10-09English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 36
    Fitzhugh Lee to Charlie G. Kerr
    1877-10-24English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 37
    Fitzhugh Lee to Charlie G. Kerr
    1878-12-27English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 38
    Fitzhugh Lee to Mr. Warfeild
    1880-01-12English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 39
    Fitzhugh Lee to Charlie Kerr
    1883-01-04English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 40
    Fitzhugh Lee to Charlie Kerr
    1883-12-20English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 41
    Fitzhugh Lee to Charlie Kerr
    1884-01-05English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 42
    Fitzhugh Lee to Samuel M. Duncan
    1885-04-20English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 43
    Fitzhugh Lee to "My dear General"
    1894-05-17English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 44
    Fitzhugh Lee to Eliot Danforth
    1898-04-14English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 45
    George Washington Custis Lee
    1862-12-26English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 46
    George Washington Custis Lee to Thomas F. Balfe
    1871-05-10English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 47
    George Washington Custis Lee, concerning Mrs. A. M. Fitzhugh's estate
    1875-03-20English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 48
    George Washington Custis Lee to Harry C. Hines
    1876-09-30English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 49
    Thos. E. Marshall, Jr. to Edmund R. Cocke
    1893-09-04English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 50
    Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee
    Lee, Mary Randolph Custis, 1807-1883
    Two letters appear laminated.
    English.
    • 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.
    • 1860s
      • Text box: 1 folder: 50
        Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee to Abbey L. Cook
        1865-01-27English.
      • 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 Unknown
        1869-08-29English.
      • Text box: 1 folder: 50
        Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee to "My dear Miss Letty"
        English.
    • 1870s
      • Text box: 1 folder: 50
        Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee to Unknown
        1873-09-16English.
      • Text box: 1 folder: 50
        Note in the same pocket would appear to be from the 1870s.
        English.
  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 51
    Mary R. Custis Lee to Mrs. Cocke
    1868English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 52
    Mary Custis Lee (daughter), concerning estate of A. M. Fitzhugh
    1875-03-20English.
  • 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 Mary
    1896-08-20English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 56
    Midred Lee to Elizabeth Cocke
    1881-08-25English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 57
    Richard Henry Lee to Patrick Henry
    1778-10-21English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 58
    Richard Henry Lee to Unknown
    1781-08-02English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 58A
    Richard Henry Lee to Alexander Martin
    1785-01-04English.
  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 59
    Richard Henry Lee
    1885English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 60
    Robert E. Lee, Jr. to Edmund R. Cocke
    1866-01-14 English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 61
    Robert E. Lee, Jr., concerning estate of A. M. Fitzhugh
    1875-03-20English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 62
    Robert E. Lee, Jr. to E. R. Cocke
    1913-03-01English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 63
    Robert E. Lee, III to Edmund R. Cocke
    1913-03-17English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 64
    Robert E. Lee, III to Edmund R. Cocke
    1914-10-31English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 65
    William Henry Fitzhugh Lee to Custis Lee
    1852-02-15English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 66
    William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, concerning estate of A. M. Fitzhugh
    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. Littlejohn
    1817-06-23English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 69
    George Washington Parke Custis to Philip R. Ferndale
    1830-03-12English.
  • 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 Seward
    1850-03-15English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 72
    Custis, George Washington Parke to Henry E. Wise
    1850-10-15English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 73
    George Washington Parke Custis to Benson Lossing
    1855-12-02 English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 74
    Custis, to Henry Winder At National Theatre, N.D.
    English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 75
    Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis to "My dear Lucretia", N.D.
    English.
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Letters
Text box: 2 1797-1891English.
  • 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 Larendon
    1879-04-02English.
  • Text box: 2 folder: 1
    P. G. T. Beauregard to Judge Alf. Roman
    1882-10-25English.
  • Text box: 2 folder: 1
    P. G. T. Beauregard reply to John L. Manning
    1861-05English.
  • Text box: 2 folder: 2
    Thomas N. Burwell to Edward Carrington
    1810-06-12English.
  • 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. Fitzhugh
    1873-09-05English.
  • Text box: 2 folder: 4
    D. I. Markey to Benjamin Hallowell
    1851-04-10English.
  • Text box: 2 folder: 4
    Mr. Ayers to Benjamin Hallowell
    1851-04-17English.
  • Text box: 2 folder: 4
    Benjamin Hallowell to Robert W. Miller
    1873-11-14English.
  • Text box: 2 folder: 5
    D. H. Hill to Hon. John W. Ellis
    1861-06-16English.
  • Text box: 2 folder: 6
    Jed Hotchkiss to his wife
    1873-06-30English.
  • Text box: 2 folder: 7
    Gen. Edward Johnson to S. C. P. Mitlan
    1862-01-17English.
  • Text box: 2 folder: 8
    Gen. Edward Johnson to Col. Johnson
    1861-08-06English.
  • 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. Jackson
    1862-05-27English.
  • Text box: 2 folder: 9
    Gen. J. E. Johnston to Maj. Gen. Wilson
    1866-02-04English.
  • 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. Andrews
    1874-12-09English.
  • 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. Sartain
    1852-02-11English.
  • 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. Campbell
    1863-04-27English.
  • Text box: 2 folder: 15
    Frank Preston to Unknown
    1797-07-08English.
  • Text box: 2 folder: 16
    Rockbridge County Election Record
    1860English.
  • Text box: 2 folder: 17
    Gen. Winfield Scott and others, battle orders to Commander/Capt. Dahlgren
    1861 and N.D.English.
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Mixed Materials box: 3
Photocopies of letters