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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
Scope and Contents
Lee Lee Lee Lee Lees LeeThe 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 1847-02-28English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 2 1853-01-06English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 3 1861-10-11English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 4 1862-04-18English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 5 1862-09-23English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 6 1863-03-21English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 7 1863-10-31English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 8 1864-05-10English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 9 1865-03-01English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 10 1865-07-31English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 11 1865-07-31English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 12
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 1865-09-11English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 14 1866-01-08English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 15 1868-03-07English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 16 1869-05-15English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 17 1870-10-15English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 18 1867-01-14English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 19
English.
- 1852-02-10vEnglish.
- English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 20 1803-08-26English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 21 1775English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 22 1791-10-10English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 23 1801-11-28English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 24 1802-09-28English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 25 1848-02-01English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 26 1848-06-25English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 27 1853-04-30English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 28 1892-10-11English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 29 1892-10-22English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 30 1892-12-30English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 31 1780-07-05English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 32 1865-09-30English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 33 1875-11-11English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 34 1877-09-22English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 35 1877-10-09English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 36 1877-10-24English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 37 1878-12-27English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 38 1880-01-12English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 39 1883-01-04English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 40 1883-12-20English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 41 1884-01-05English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 42 1885-04-20English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 43 1894-05-17English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 44 1898-04-14English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 45 1862-12-26English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 46 1871-05-10English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 47 1875-03-20English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 48 1876-09-30English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 49
Thos. E. Marshall, Jr. to Edmund R. Cocke1893-09-04English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 50
Lee, Mary Randolph Custis, 1807-1883
Two letters appear laminated.English.
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1850s
- Text box: 1 folder: 50 1850-08-22English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 50 1852-02-15English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 50 1859-02-11English.
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1860s
- Text box: 1 folder: 50 1865-01-27English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 50 1867-06-12English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 50 1868-05-22English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 50 1869-08-29English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 50 English.
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1870s
- Text box: 1 folder: 50 1873-09-16English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 50
Note in the same pocket would appear to be from the 1870s.English.
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- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 51 1868English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 52 1875-03-20English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 53 English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 54 1874-01-04English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 55 1896-08-20English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 56 1881-08-25English.
- 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 1866-01-14 English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 61 1875-03-20English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 62 1913-03-01English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 63 1913-03-17English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 64 1914-10-31English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 65 1852-02-15English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 66 1875-03-20English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 67 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
Custis, George Washington Parke to Henry E. Wise1850-10-15English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 73
George Washington Parke Custis to Benson Lossing1855-12-02 English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 74
Custis, to Henry Winder At National Theatre, N.D.English.
- Text box: 1 folder: 75 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
Benjamin Hallowell to Robert W. Miller1873-11-14English.
- 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 1860English.
- Text box: 2 folder: 17
Gen. Winfield Scott and others, battle orders to Commander/Capt. Dahlgren1861 and N.D.English.