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Dear Mrs. McDonald,

I enclose the address of the store my white dress came from. Of course I think it will be safer for you to ask some friend to select a dress lady for you, but if you know of no one, I suppose you might describe the kind you want & name the price you wished to give. Cousin M 's with the long Jacquet & bias tucks was $9.50. There were none of that style left when mine was bought. I suppose they bring them in frequently. Mine with the two skirts & ct was 10.00.

I dont know whether my endorsement amounts to any thing! I found the composition difficult. Mama asks if you have a nice Jacquet pattern that wd <illegible> to make the Jacquet of a striped white muslim dress? I believe she prefers it not cut at the back. Love to Mrs. H & her sons.

Sincerely

Agnes Lee

Notes

Robert E. Lee Papers (064 collection), Leyburn Library

This letter was written after 1869, when Mary E. McCormick married Marshall McDonald, VMI graduate and teacher.