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Eleanor Agnes Lee
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Mildred Childe Lee
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I have been wanting to write to you for a long time ever since I left you in fact but something has always prevented; in New York I was always occupied in going about, & here I have had so many...
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Oct. 29, 1860
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Eleanor Agnes Lee
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Mildred Childe Lee
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Mamma’ thinks you may have an opportunity to send your bonnet over to Mrs. Barnes to-day, so as “Agnes never writes” I have seated myself to concoct an epistle to send any how. The bonnet is very...
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Apr. 19, 1861
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Eleanor Agnes Lee
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Mildred Childe Lee
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I hardly know dear Mildred whether you or I have written the last letter but as both Rob & yourself have a tradition your sisters never write I wish to prove to you what a mistake that is! Here...
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May 23, 1861
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Eleanor Agnes Lee
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Mildred Childe Lee
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Why you persist dear Mill in saying I never write I can’t imagine, I wonder if I did not write to you just before Ma went to the Hot (enclosed in one of hers) & no answer have I ever seen. Just...
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Nov. 10, 1861
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Eleanor Agnes Lee
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Mildred Childe Lee
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I am indeed sorry dear Mildred that you were so disappointed in “St. Marys,” though of course I make some little allowance for slight exaggeration just to make it more interesting you know. But it...
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Oct. 13, 1862
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Eleanor Agnes Lee
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Mildred Childe Lee
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Your letter, dear Sister, was given Mamma on our arrival Saturday. I do indeed wish you could have been with us, but the telegram could hardly have surprised you more then the knowledge that she...
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Oct. 27, 1862
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Eleanor Agnes Lee
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Mildred Childe Lee
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You will be surprised at the date of my letter, dear Sister but it was necessary for me to go to a dentist immediately & Belle Harrison recommended one so highly here I came here last Wed....
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Nov. 7, 1862
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