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Lee-Jackson Foundation collection WLU.Coll.0170


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

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[Identification of item], previous hit Lee  next hit-Jackson Foundation Collection, WLU Coll 0170, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and previous hit Lee  next hit University, Lexington, VA.

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of previous hit Lee  next hit-Jackson Foundation of Charlottesville, Va.


Scope and Contents

previous hit Lee  next hitprevious hit Lee  next hitprevious hit Lee  next hitprevious hit Lee  next hitprevious hit Lees  next hitprevious hit Lee  next hit

The sixteen R.E. previous hit Lee  next hit items cover a date span of 22 years from 1847 through 1869. There are ten letters of Mrs. Mary Randolph Custis previous hit Lee  next hit 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
  • previous hit Lee  next hit, Agnes
  • previous hit Lee  next hit, George Washington Custis
  • previous hit Lee  next hit, Mary Randolph Custis, 1807-1883
  • previous hit Lee  next hit, Mildred Childe, 1846-1905
  • previous hit Lee  next hit, Robert E., Jr., 1843-1914
  • previous hit Lee  next hit, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1837-1891
  • previous hit Lee  next hit-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

Container List

Letters, 1775-1913
Text box: 1 English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 1
    Robert E. previous hit Lee  next hit to "My dear Major"
    1847-02-28English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 2
    Robert E. previous hit Lee  next hit to Joseph G. Totten
    1853-01-06English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 3
    Robert E. previous hit Lee  next hit to William J. Clarke
    1861-10-11English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 4
    Robert E. previous hit Lee  next hit to Major Harman
    1862-04-18English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 5
    Robert E. previous hit Lee  next hit to "My dear Madame"
    1862-09-23English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 6
    Robert E. previous hit Lee  next hit to Isaac Trimble
    1863-03-21English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 7
    Robert E. previous hit Lee  next hit to Gov. John Letcher
    1863-10-31English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 8
    Robert E. previous hit Lee  next hit to Richard Ewell
    1864-05-10English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 9
    Robert E. previous hit Lee  next hit to Mrs. Margaret B. Daingerfield
    1865-03-01English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 10
    Robert E. previous hit Lee  next hit to Richard S. Maury
    1865-07-31English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 11
    Robert E. previous hit Lee  next hit (circular letter) from Near Cartersville
    1865-07-31English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 12
    Robert E. previous hit Lee  next hit 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, previous hit Lee  next hit 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. previous hit Lee  next hit to Richard S. Maury
    1865-09-11English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 14
    Robert E. previous hit Lee  next hit to Major W. I. Hawks
    1866-01-08English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 15
    Robert E. previous hit Lee  next hit to John W. Truslow
    1868-03-07English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 16
    Robert E. previous hit Lee  next hit to Dr. A. G. Bledsoe
    1869-05-15English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 17
    Printed funeral announcement re Robert E. previous hit Lee  next hit
    1870-10-15English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 18
    Agnes previous hit Lee  next hit to Mrs. Richard L. Maury
    1867-01-14English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 19
    Alfred previous hit Lee  next hit to N. Burwell, 2 notes
    English.
    • Alfred previous hit Lee  next hit to N. Burwell
      1852-02-10vEnglish.
    • Alfred previous hit Lee  next hit to N. Burwell, N.D.
      English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 20
    Arthur previous hit Lee  next hit -- court copy of his will made on 1792-07-07
    1803-08-26English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 21
    Arthur previous hit Lee  next hit 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 previous hit Lee  next hit to Joseph Nourse
    1791-10-10English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 23
    Charles previous hit Lee  next hit to James McHenry
    1801-11-28English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 24
    Charles previous hit Lee  next hit to William A. Washington
    1802-09-28English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 25
    Charles Carter previous hit Lee  next hit to Nat Burwell
    1848-02-01English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 26
    Charles Carter previous hit Lee  next hit to Nat Burwell
    1848-06-25English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 27
    Charlotte W. previous hit Lee  next hit to Nat Burwell
    1853-04-30English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 28
    Edmund Jennings previous hit Lee  next hit to Alexander Brown
    1892-10-11English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 29
    Edmund Jennings previous hit Lee  next hit to Alexander Brown
    1892-10-22English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 30
    Edmund Jennings previous hit Lee  next hit to "My dear Sir"
    1892-12-30English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 31
    Francis Lightfoot previous hit Lee  next hit to "My dearest"
    1780-07-05English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 32
    Fitzhugh previous hit Lee  next hit to "General"
    1865-09-30English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 33
    Fitzhugh previous hit Lee  next hit, Received of Charles Kerr
    1875-11-11English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 34
    Fitzhugh previous hit Lee  next hit to Charlie G. Kerr
    1877-09-22English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 35
    Fitzhugh previous hit Lee  next hit to Charlie G. Kerr
    1877-10-09English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 36
    Fitzhugh previous hit Lee  next hit to Charlie G. Kerr
    1877-10-24English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 37
    Fitzhugh previous hit Lee  next hit to Charlie G. Kerr
    1878-12-27English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 38
    Fitzhugh previous hit Lee  next hit to Mr. Warfeild
    1880-01-12English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 39
    Fitzhugh previous hit Lee  next hit to Charlie Kerr
    1883-01-04English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 40
    Fitzhugh previous hit Lee  next hit to Charlie Kerr
    1883-12-20English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 41
    Fitzhugh previous hit Lee  next hit to Charlie Kerr
    1884-01-05English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 42
    Fitzhugh previous hit Lee  next hit to Samuel M. Duncan
    1885-04-20English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 43
    Fitzhugh previous hit Lee  next hit to "My dear General"
    1894-05-17English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 44
    Fitzhugh previous hit Lee  next hit to Eliot Danforth
    1898-04-14English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 45
    George Washington Custis previous hit Lee  next hit
    1862-12-26English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 46
    George Washington Custis previous hit Lee  next hit to Thomas F. Balfe
    1871-05-10English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 47
    George Washington Custis previous hit Lee  next hit, concerning Mrs. A. M. Fitzhugh's estate
    1875-03-20English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 48
    George Washington Custis previous hit Lee  next hit 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 previous hit Lee  next hit
    Lee, Mary Randolph Custis, 1807-1883
    Two letters appear laminated.
    English.
    • 1850s
      • Text box: 1 folder: 50
        Mary Anna Randolph Custis previous hit Lee  next hit to "My dear Abbey"
        1850-08-22English.
      • Text box: 1 folder: 50
        Mary Anna Randolph Custis previous hit Lee  next hit to "Dear Brother"
        1852-02-15English.
      • Text box: 1 folder: 50
        Mary Anna Randolph Custis previous hit Lee  next hit [to Mr. L.]
        1859-02-11English.
    • 1860s
      • Text box: 1 folder: 50
        Mary Anna Randolph Custis previous hit Lee  next hit to Abbey L. Cook
        1865-01-27English.
      • Text box: 1 folder: 50
        Mary Anna Randolph Custis previous hit Lee  next hit [to Benson J. Lossing]
        1867-06-12English.
      • Text box: 1 folder: 50
        Mary Anna Randolph Custis previous hit Lee  next hit to "My dear Letty"
        1868-05-22English.
      • Text box: 1 folder: 50
        Mary Anna Randolph Custis previous hit Lee  next hit to Unknown
        1869-08-29English.
      • Text box: 1 folder: 50
        Mary Anna Randolph Custis previous hit Lee  next hit to "My dear Miss Letty"
        English.
    • 1870s
      • Text box: 1 folder: 50
        Mary Anna Randolph Custis previous hit Lee  next hit 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 previous hit Lee  next hit to Mrs. Cocke
    1868English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 52
    Mary Custis previous hit Lee  next hit (daughter), concerning estate of A. M. Fitzhugh
    1875-03-20English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 53
    Mildred previous hit Lee  next hit to Preston Cocke, N.D.
    English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 54
    Midred previous hit Lee  next hit to M. F. Maury, Jr.
    1874-01-04English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 55
    Midred previous hit Lee  next hit to Mary
    1896-08-20English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 56
    Midred previous hit Lee  next hit to Elizabeth Cocke
    1881-08-25English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 57
    Richard Henry previous hit Lee  next hit to Patrick Henry
    1778-10-21English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 58
    Richard Henry previous hit Lee  next hit to Unknown
    1781-08-02English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 58A
    Richard Henry previous hit Lee  next hit to Alexander Martin
    1785-01-04English.
  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 59
    Richard Henry previous hit Lee  next hit
    1885English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 60
    Robert E. previous hit Lee  next hit, Jr. to Edmund R. Cocke
    1866-01-14 English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 61
    Robert E. previous hit Lee  next hit, Jr., concerning estate of A. M. Fitzhugh
    1875-03-20English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 62
    Robert E. previous hit Lee  next hit, Jr. to E. R. Cocke
    1913-03-01English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 63
    Robert E. previous hit Lee  next hit, III to Edmund R. Cocke
    1913-03-17English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 64
    Robert E. previous hit Lee  next hit, III to Edmund R. Cocke
    1914-10-31English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 65
    William Henry Fitzhugh previous hit Lee  next hit to Custis previous hit Lee  next hit
    1852-02-15English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 66
    William Henry Fitzhugh previous hit Lee  next hit, concerning estate of A. M. Fitzhugh
    1875-03-20English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 67
    Photographic scrapbook relating to Robert E. previous hit Lee  next hit, 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 previous hit Lee  next hit Fitzhugh Custis to "My dear Lucretia", N.D.
    English.
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 previous hit 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.
Mixed Materials box: 3
Photocopies of letters