U.S. Military Academy West Point N.Y. 22 Jany 1853
Sir.
Your offer to instruct the Cadets in dancing, during the next encampment, on the former conditions, is accepted.
You will please make your arrangements & notify me accordingly.
I am very resply. Yr. obed Ser.
(Signed) R. E. Lee. Br. Col.
Supt: Mil: Acady
Superintendent's Daily Correspondence United States Military Academy
Superintendent's Letter Book No. 2, p. 317. Addressed “Mr. Hlasko. Baltimore Md.”