Letters / Correspondence

Edmund Jennings Lee

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Letters table
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1 Charles Lee Edmund Jennings Lee You[1] are competent to determine for yourself whether you had better remain at Princeton or return to Virginia. You have my consent to do either as you please, but I hope you will not stay in... Dec. 28, 1791
2 Mildred Childe Lee Edmund Jennings Lee I see that the cares of a family have not added to your dignity nor lessened your frivolity! Now that you have a daughter’s future before you, I advise you to let mine alone - it being past... Oct. 12, 1882
3 Henrietta B. Lee Edmund Jennings Lee Again you have kindly remembered me as the years roll round, and again I thank you for the proof in the prettily bound, and valuable little book, “The changed life,” which has followed your last... Jan. 15, 1892
4 James Henry Lea Edmund Jennings Lee Your esteemed favor of the 25th, inst. has just been received by me here, where I am passing the Winter, having been forwarded from my home in Fairhaven & I hasten to express my gratitude for... Jan. 27, 1892
5 James Henry Lea Edmund Jennings Lee Your esteemed favor of yesterday is at hand & I have to thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to see the papers which you have enclosed. These I will retain for a few days for... Feb. 4, 1892
6 Fitzhugh Lee Edmund Jennings Lee Accept my thanks for the copy photograph taken in Richmond 1865 of Gen Lee & Custis. I remember the occasion.I think the photograph of the General makes him too old & too severe though a... Mar. 3, 1892
7 Edmund Jennings Lee Alexander Brown Having read from time to time your articles on the Lee family, I am much moved to write to you now to ask your kind help. I am trying to write up a brief sketch of the Lees from 1642 to 1892,... Oct. 1892
8 Edmund Jennings Lee My Dear Sir I have not answered your last kind letter as I do not want to bother you unnecessarily with my letters. But now I feel I must again intrude with some more questions! And it is the old subject of... Dec. 1892
9 G.W.C. Lee Edmund Jennings Lee I send you herewith a sketch of my life. It is probably more full than you need for your purposes; but you can cut out as much as you choose – the more the better. I can not give you the dates of... Oct. 24, 1894
10 Samuel Phillips Lee Edmund Jennings Lee I received your favor of May 24th and since then your circular. I thank you heartily for all you have done in the matter. My debility from the wear of the war and age made me at fault in not... Jun. 6, 1895
11 Charles Henry Lee Edmund Jennings Lee I must drop a line to thank you for the handsome book, which does do you much credit, & for which I am greatly obliged. Of course I will remember you with respecting the “gift.” If I had known... Jun. 12, 1895
12 Richard Henry Lee Edmund Jennings Lee I hav been absent from Leesburg since June 3. until day before yesterday. On yesterday the express agent sent me your Genalogical book. I thank-you very much for it & shall appreciate it... Jul. 18, 1895