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Robert E. Lee
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Charles Carter Lee
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I was very much gratified yesterday at recg your letter of the 5th & pleased to learn the good health of your household & the safe return of Sis-Lucy & Mildred. What did you let them go...
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Aug. 12, 1864
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Robert E. Lee
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Charles Carter Lee
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I rec’d to day your letter of the 19th. I send you the Times of the 21st which will tell you all about the indictments which I know. The papers are arguing the Subject pro & Con, & I...
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Jun. 21, 1865
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Charles Carter Lee
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Robert E. Lee
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My Dear Brother, I send you, for the work you are engaged upon, as the best history that can be furnished of the close of our father’s life, his letters to me at that sad period. How much of them...
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Jul. 25, 1866
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Robert E. Lee
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Charles Carter Lee
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I have been intending to write to you on some points in which I am not clear, & have not the proper books to which to refer. In the biography of our father, in speaking of the men who were...
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Mar. 19, 1867
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Robert E. Lee
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Charles Carter Lee
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I reached here today having been detained in the mountains three weeks by sickness. But for my indisposition I should have written to you before, to say that if George desires to return to...
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Sep. 16, 1867
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Robert E. Lee
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Charles Carter Lee
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I as very glad to receive your letter of the 5th Inst: giving assurance of the good health of all your family who are with you. Those members who are here are well. George & Henry are pretty...
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Oct. 24, 1867
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Charles Carter Lee
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Robert E. Lee
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You have hardly imagined how gratified I am at the letter from you which greeted my arrival here after my long absence, but I have been waiting from mail to mail to receive accounts of the Memoirs,...
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Dec. 3, 1868
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Robert E. Lee
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Charles Carter Lee
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I am sorry to learn from your letter of Richardsons difficulties - Want of funds & credit may be at the bottom of them, but I do not think rival publishing houses are the most accurate...
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Dec. 22, 1868
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Robert E. Lee
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Charles Carter Lee
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I was glad to learn by your letter of the 1st that you & yours were in the enjoyment of good health & other blessings vouchsaved to us by a Merciful Providence, & pray that they may be...
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Jan. 15, 1869
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Robert E. Lee
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Charles Carter Lee
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Yours of the 22nd Ulto: is at hand & Henry proposes to leave us this afternoon. I am sorry for his departure & sorry for the cause. Although I was aware that he was labouring under...
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Feb. 9, 1869
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Robert E. Lee
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Charles Carter Lee
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Your letter of the 6t was only recd yesterday. I have to leave to my good dame the privilege of maintaining our serial correspondence, & can only write myself when occasion makes it necessary....
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Jul. 8, 1869
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Robert E. Lee
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Charles Carter Lee
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I have recd your letter of the 15t & have written to Richardson. The word in question is written in the copy of the letter sent me Arga not Aga as stated in your last. I think it probable that...
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Aug. 18, 1869
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Robert E. Lee
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Charles Carter Lee
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I recd a letter from Mary today saying that Richardson had sent me a check for $800. on account of sales of Memoirs, which was payable to my order. I have requested that it be placed to my credit...
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Apr. 18, 1870
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Robert E. Lee
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Charles Carter Lee
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Both of your letters from Broadneck have been forw - d to me at this place. I was as much surprised at the request made by Bernard in the one, as at the sudden change of his opinion & wishes...
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Robert E. Lee
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Charles Carter Lee
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Tattoo is beating & I have to be in the Saddle by 6 tomorrow mor - g. Still I must tell you of the pleasure which your letter of the 11 Dec - r last afforded me, which arrived by the last train...
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Robert E. Lee
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Charles Carter Lee
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Your letter of the 12th afforded me much gratification. I wish the interpretation given to your dream may be realized & that health & abundance may abound in the Army. That such may be the...
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Robert E. Lee
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Charles Carter Lee
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I was very much gratified yesterday at recg your letter of the 5th - & pleased to learn the good health of your household & the safe return of Sis - Lucy and Mildred. What did you let them...
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Robert E. Lee
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Charles Carter Lee
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I was exceedingly sorry on my return to learn that I had missed your visit. I thought I informed you, that if Agnes was well enough I should go to Fluvanna, I regret very much that my visit there...
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