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A Guide to John Esten Cooke Manuscript, Accession 38-599, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
The collection was a gift to the Library on October 15, 1970 , from Mariah Pendleton Duval of Staunton, Virginia .
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
This collection contains the handwritten manuscript of John Esten Cooke 's novel, Mohun , as well as the introduction to a lost manuscript, and a few assorted pages. Mohun is a fictional saga of the Civil War, and describes the last days of Robert E. Lee and his paladins. The separate introduction concerns the women of the Civil War period and their efforts during the war.