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Robert E. Lee,
Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee
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Elizabeth Stiles
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I hope Miss Eliza will not think that I require assistance to write to her at any time, still less to reply to the sentiments contained in her very kind letter, which after so long an interval,...
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Jan. 23, 1836
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Robert E. Lee
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Elizabeth Stiles
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It has been more than a year My dear Mrs. Stiles, Since I have heard from you. It has been longer I fear Since I have written to you. Your last letter was dated 21 March ’55. I have carried it with...
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May 24, 1856
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Mary Custis Lee
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Elizabeth Stiles
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I only this evening my dear friend received your letter written on the 5th of January. Where could it have been all this time? Not intercepted I hope by the Secessionists. You directed it to Alexa....
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Feb. 9, 1861
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Robert E. Lee
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Elizabeth Stiles
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My thoughts have been with you ever since I left Penn. I grieve, deeply grieve, over your irreparable loss.[2] But your loss is mine too, for your sweet child was as dear to me as my own daughter....
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Jul. 25, 1863
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Robert E. Lee
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Elizabeth Stiles
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I recd yesterday, My dear Mrs Stiles your letter of the 17th Ulto, with the package of peach leather. I am very much obliged to you for thinking of me, & I assure you I never forget you. I had...
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Nov. 25, 1863
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