Locket containing General Lee’s hair1
For my little friend
Eliza Snowden Thomas
from Mary Custis Lee
August 29th 1867
a lock of Genl R.E. Lee’s hair
(On reverse: Miss E.S. Thomas)
Source: The Archives of the Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation, Papers of the Lee Family, Box 4, M2009.351
Transcribed by Caitlin Connelly, 2016 May 25
1. Locket with hair on exhibit in Reception Center, Stratford Hall, VA