Letters / Correspondence

Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee & Mildred Childe Lee

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Letters table
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1 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee Mildred Childe Lee I only yesterday received your letter directed to Fairfax court H acknowledging the receipt of the shoe strings &c, no doubt you have written often since but we get no letters now from any... Jun. 11, 1861
2 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee Mildred Childe Lee I could not write to you by the first mail that went out after my arrival here because I had only time to send a letter to your papa I have been very glad that I did not bring you along for several... Sep. 15, 1861
3 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee Mildred Childe Lee I hope tomorrow’s mail may bring me a letter from you my dear child you gave me such a little tiny one & did not tell me of any one at Kinloch tho I suppose you did not allow yourself room on... Sep. 21, 1861
4 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee Mildred Childe Lee I feel so anxious on your subject that if I had not promised Charlotte to go & stay with her till the girls returned I would go up to Kinlock to get you ready for school there is but little I... Oct. 1, 1861
5 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee Mildred Childe Lee I feel so anxious on your subject that if I had not promised Charlotte to go & stay with her till the girls returned I would go up to Kinlock to get you ready for school there is but little I... Oct. 11, 1861
6 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee Anne Carter Lee, Mildred Childe Lee Only think my dear children none of your letters arrived until yesterday & then all came together one had been misspent you may know that I was very anxious & supposed that my dear little... Jun. 29, 1862
7 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee Mildred Childe Lee Your sister Annie left us this morning at 7 o’clock for a better world where her dear grandmamma will be ready to receive her oh may we all meet her where there will be no more sin or sorrow but... Oct. 20, 1862
8 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee Mildred Childe Lee Your very prompt reply to my letter deserved an answer sooner, but I have been daily expecting to receive the things poor cousin Julia so that I could send them all at once. However as you have a... Nov. 15, 1862
9 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee Mildred Childe Lee I am glad my dear child to find you have made up your mind so quietly to do what your parents think best & hope you will spend both a pleasant & profitable vacation. Miss R sent the carpet... Dec. 1, 1862
10 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee Mildred Childe Lee I have not answered your letter sooner my dear child because Agnes told me she was writing to you & indeed I had but little to communicate save that I was still suffering from rheumatism tho’ I... Mar. 27, 1863
11 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee Mildred Childe Lee Why have you not written to me. I have been expecting either to see or hear from you every day this week & begin to feel very uneasy, lest you should be sick especially now that I am so... Jun. 7, 1863
12 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee, Mary Custis Lee Mildred Childe Lee I am quite in despair of hearing from you again my dear Mild & therefore commence this letter to tell you I have left the Hot without any very visible improvement except a slight relaxation in... Aug. 16, 1863
13 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee, Mildred Childe Lee Unknown I was glad to hear from you my dear Norvell it has been so long since for both Mildred & I think we never received the letter you alluded to at the time of poor Lottie's death. It seemed... Jan. 5, 1873
14 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee, Mildred Childe Lee Harry Lee Lexington [n.d.]I was very much gratified my dear Harry to receive your affectionate letter & to hear that you were pursuing a course calculated to improve your health & with it your... -