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Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee
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Charles Carter Lee
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Most willingly would I have complied with your last injunction of writing forthwith had it been in my power. But your letter reached Arlington after I had taken my departure for this place &...
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Apr. 14, 1834
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Robert E. Lee,
Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee
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Charles Carter Lee
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I received your letter last week & though you do not touch heavily on your domestic arrangements, I judge you are gratified with the prospects at present & the anticipations for the future....
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Jun. 30, 1834
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Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee
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Charles Carter Lee
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I received your letter my dear Carter & am sorry you have given yourself the trouble to write to your friend for I am such a cripple that I do not feel able to undertake the difficulties. I...
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Jul. 17, 1856
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Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee
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Charles Carter Lee
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Your affectionate letter should have been sooner acknowledged my dear Carter but I have not recently felt in the writing vein which often seizes me & then all my correspondents suffer. I am...
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Nov. 28, 1868
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Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee
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Charles Carter Lee
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I should have sooner replied to your letter my dear Carter but we are leading such a quiet life here that there was nothing to tell you of any interest except our own domestic concerns which have...
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Jul. 27, 1869
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Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee
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Charles Carter Lee
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Our first Mail for more than 8 days arrived this morning & brought with it your hurried letter to Robert, as it maybe very long ere he will either read or write another, I will answer at once...
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Oct. 7, 1870
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Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee
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Charles Carter Lee
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I ought to have written to you sooner, my dear Carter but in the very uncertain state of the mails, I knew it was most likely you would not get my letter for a week & the blow was so sudden; so...
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Oct. 13, 1870
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Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee
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Charles Carter Lee
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I have not written to you my dear brother Carter because I feared it might rather be an annoyance to you to receive letters that you were unable to answer, but as Lucy wrote me you took some...
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Feb. 6, 1871
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