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Letters

3,651-3,700 of 4,644 letters
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No. Sender Recipient Preview Date, oldest first
3651 J. D. B. DeBoor Robert E. Lee I take the liberty of dropping you a note which I hope will not be regarded presuming.I have re-established my Review upon a large National basis but in the course of a Southern tendency, & an... Dec. 29, 1865
3652 C. B. Moore Robert E. Lee Will you please have the kindness to forward to my address a catalogue of the Institution over which you preside - Or if none have been recently published please inform me in regard to the terms -... Dec. 29, 1865
3653 W. F. Booker Robert E. Lee I have two Boys; I wish to send to school one about 16 years old and the other 14,They are now going to school at Georgetown D. C. and my wife who was a Lee, wants me to put them under your charge... Dec. 31, 1865
3654 S. M. Kennedy Robert E. Lee Home Circle 194 Clark Street S. M. Kennedy, Proprietor. Chicago, Jan 1st 1866Gen. R. E. LeeGeneral - Will you do me the honor to inform me when your History of the War will be ready & whether... Jan. 1, 1866
3655 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee Louis M. D. Guillaume I am trying to collect my family pictures which have been lying in a cellar for nearly 10 years & am very anxious that you should go down to Alex & see them for me & make such repairs... 1866
3656 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee Louis M. D. Guillaume I write to know something about my pictures if you have all that need repairs & what pictures you have. I suppose Mr. Green did not give you any frames to them. Please let me know when they... 1866
3657 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee Unknown I have been hoping every day my dear friend to hear again from my cousin Miss Williams concerning my dear house & know if there was any hope of recovering those things which have been... 1866
3658 Robert E. Lee George S. Baker May I ask you to hand the enclosed letter to the President of Franklin Society & Library Compy & believe me Very respyYour obt servtR E LeeMr Geo S Baker Secy of Franklin Society 1866
3659 Robert E. Lee I. Stoddard Johnston I am very much obliged to you for your letter of the 25 ulto: & for the information it contains. I should like very much to obtain a copy of the narrative of Genl Breckenridge's... 1866
3660 Robert E. Lee J. B. Dorman Major Your letter informing me of my election as an Honorary member of the Franklin Society & Library Comapny of Lexington at its annual meeting on the 17th Inst: has been recd, and I beg that... 1866
3661 Robert E. Lee Eleanor Agnes Lee I sat down to give my dear little Sally, for she is dear to me in the broadest & highest sense of the word, the benefit of Jenny Taylors opinion, on hasty marriages. But on reflection I fear it... Jan. 3, 1866
3662 Robert E. Lee Sidney Smith Lee I recd last night your letter of the 30th which afforded me & all my household much pleasure. Robert C. was also glad to receive the one to him, & I will leave him to communicate everything... Jan. 4, 1866
3663 T. M. Niven Robert E. Lee Please find enclosed receipt from Express Co. for package containing Carlyle’s, Frederick the Great (5 Vols) -I have today put into hands of the publisher (Blelock & Co) the matter of Dr... Jan. 5, 1866
3664 - Robert E. Lee As you are the principle of a military academy I mow write to you to get some information of it. I should like to attend your school, and would like to know if it is possible for me to do so. Is... Jan. 6, 1866
3665 A. H. Gardner Robert E. Lee Since your acceptance of the Presidency of Washington College I have been anxious to become a student of yours, but until now have been unable to do so - Father, as most Southerners, has lost the... Jan. 7, 1866
3666 J. S. Campbell Robert E. Lee 8 Jan. 1866 Jan. 8, 1866
3667 Mrs. T. J. Jackson Robert E. Lee From a letter received from Dr Dabney I learn that he would be greatly obliged & indebted to you, if you would take the trouble to make a memorandum of the errors you noticed in his narrative... Jan. 9, 1866
3668 R. J. Mays Robert E. Lee I am anxious to send my brother to your school, but have heard that it is a State Institution and that students from other States than Va cannot enter. Will you please let me know and state terms... Jan. 9, 1866
3669 - Robert E. Lee Sender: Recipient: Robert E.LeeOffice of Lancaster & Co. Stock Exchange Brokers. Richmond, Va. Jany 9th 1866Dear SirAbout the beginning of the late war we were unsuccessful in an effort to... Jan. 9, 1866
3670 John L. Divine Robert E. Lee My object in addressing you is to enquire, if a boy, fourteen years old, who is tolerably well advanced for one of that age would be admitted as a student in your College?The boy whom I desire to... Jan. 9, 1866
3671 John R. Green Robert E. Lee This will be handed you Lucius Peyton whom I wish to place under your guardian ship His training for 3 years in the Army of Tenn, has no doubt rendered him tractable, his purpose is to take a full... Jan. 9, 1866
3672 Charles S. Venable Walter H. Taylor I want to bother you with a small bother of mine. I got some furniture some time in November (about 13th) in Baltimore. This was forwarded by what is called the New Line Baltimore, Norfolk &... Jan. 10, 1866
3673 W. M. Campbell Robert E. Lee Please send me a catalogue of the College of which you are president I have the honor to be Genyour Obt ServtW M Campbell Late Surg CSA Jan. 10, 1866
3674 John Carroll Walsh Robert E. Lee Near Ineracten Mills P.O. The Mound. Harfor Cmo. Janry 11th 1866General.I have directed Messrs Kelly & Tait, Booksellers, of Baltimore, to forward you, for the use of Washington College .... Jan. 11, 1866
3675 Jonathan O. Sullivan Robert E. Lee I have some students who are desirous of entering Washington Col. soon.They wish to enter the Jr: Class if possible & hence, wish to see the curriculum. Will you, therefore, be so kind as to... Jan. 11, 1866
3676 Samuel Rothchild Robert E. Lee I wish my son to become a student at your College. He is 14 years old, is very well advanced for his age, is a good boy. Will be much obliged if you will inform me if he will be received, at what... Jan. 12, 1866
3677 W. Scott Glore Robert E. Lee I understand that you intend writing a History of Your Campaigns of the late War. I write you requesting the Agency of your book as soon as it is ready for this State, Kentucky. & as many... Jan. 13, 1866
3678 Washington Barrows Robert E. Lee Having suffered in the same cause as yourself - a cause which though dead is dear to me, and having the highest appreciation of your whole character, I have concluded to send my grandson, my only... Jan. 15, 1866
3679 J. A.Burns Robert E. Lee having learned that you design the publication of a book, to be written by yourself, in reference to the late war, etc. I write you in order to procure if possible an agency for the same on this... Jan. 15, 1866
3680 George L. Washington Robert E. Lee I am desirous of obtaining a Tutorship at Washington College, and deem it proper to address my application to yourself. The war has left me, like every body else, without means or employment and I... Jan. 16, 1866
3681 E. C. Middleton Robert E. Lee E. C. MIDDLETON & CO. PUBLISHERS OF NATIONAL OIL PORTRAITS. 132 West Fourth Street, Cincinnati, Jan 18th 1866Dear SirWhile visiting General Sherman at his residence in St. Louis a few days ago,... Jan. 18, 1866
3682 A. C. Niven Robert E. Lee You are doubtless aware that the Federal Congress, before the close of the war appointed a Committee on the conduct of the war whose labors are published in several volumes (three I think. Much of... Jan. 19, 1866
3683 Alfred Chapman Robert E. Lee Will you confer the happiness upon one of your humble friends by affixing your name to each of the enclosed cards. They are intended for two of my daughters, who will hand them down to their... Jan. 19, 1866
3684 Mrs. William Brown Robert E. Lee When you were here last week, Mr Brown handed you a note from Mrs Jackson, with some manuscript - memoirs of the General. Mr Brown did not understand there was any other requests than those... Jan. 20, 1866
3685 George S. Walden Robert E. Lee In common with your fellow countrymen of the South, I rejoice that you have consented to assume a position, in which you may spend the remainder of your honoured life, in the quiet, and honourable... Jan. 20, 1866
3686 E. J. Quirk Robert E. Lee Permit me once more to answer your long wished for Letter only immagine when 18 years ago I recd your kind letter after your return from the City of <illegible> which document I am now... Jan. 20, 1866
3687 W. N. H. Smith Robert E. Lee I have a son 18 years of age, whom I intend to send to some institution of learning and my attention has been directed to that over which you preside. My son’s education has been retarded by the... Jan. 22, 1866
3688 D. S. Anderson Robert E. Lee Please send me a catalogue of the college which you are Pres.Your trulyD S Anderson Care of J H Anderson & son Jan. 23, 1866
3689 B. H. Covington Robert E. Lee You will oblige by sending me a Catalogue of Washington College. I hope to place my two sons under your care in the course of a year. Present appearances however, seem to indicate that our... Jan. 23, 1866
3690 R. W. Jones Robert E. Lee Though I feel that it is hardly right for me to trespass upon your time, so important to you, so far as to ask you to read my letter and reply to the same, I trust when you learn the Circumstances... Jan. 23, 1866
3691 Jubal A. Early Robert E. Lee I wrote to you from Havana, but did not say all that I wished to say - I arrived here on 2nd last, but have not yet written an account of the part taken by my different commands in the campaign... Jan. 25, 1866
3692 Peregrine Wroth Robert E. Lee The hope is indulged that I shall not be unsuccessful in begging you to pardon the liberty I have taken to write to you. Your time must be fully occupied, not only by the duties of your present... Jan. 25, 1866
3693 J. H.Higginson Robert E. Lee A project is on foot for Engraving on steel the highest style of European Art at a gallery of portraits of the Generals lately commanding the Armies of the Confederate States. The design being to... Jan. 26, 1866
3694 Robert Parker Robert E. Lee I have been informed you are writing a History of the late Civil War in America. If so and the Book to be sold by subscription allow me to solicate the agency for it for the State. I have been in... Jan. 26, 1866
3695 J. T. Twinley Robert E. Lee I have lately seen some notices in the papers in regard to the College in Lexington, and address you this note to say. -That I have two nephews whom it is my desire to educate and I have them at... Jan. 26, 1866
3696 Samuel Kennerly, Jr. Robert E. Lee On Tuesday the 16th of this month, (January) We opened a new Masonic Lodge in this place, and named it Lee Lodge, in honor of yourself, not with the view of raising a monument to your name, or of... Jan. 27, 1866
3697 Ralph Lite Robert E. Lee Will you be kind enough to send me at the above address a catalogue of your College. I desire to know when the next term will commence, expense of living etcÔI have a son in his 17th year that I... Feb. 1, 1866
3698 William Archer Cocke Robert E. Lee A large number of parents living in this section are anxious to patronize the College under your direction, will you please have forwarded to the above address, a few circulars Very ResplyYrs trWm... Feb. 1, 1866
3699 J. Temple Robert E. Lee I have received requests form a good many friends in the Southern States to "send them Circulars of Washington College" & not knowing where to obtain them, I take the liberty of... Feb. 2, 1866
3700 J. B. Williams Robert E. Lee You will confer a favor by sending to my address a Catalogue or Statement of the Course of Study & Expenses at Washington College. I am recommending your College to all my boys, and I hope if... Feb. 2, 1866

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