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4001 Robert E. Lee E. C. Gordon I thank you for your letters forwarded to me. I perceive a slight typographical error in the Circular. County for County will correct it except those not disposed. This is the day I had appointed... Aug. 3, 1868
4002 Robert E. Lee E. C. Gordon I propose leaving here tomorrow for the White Sulphur Springs, the waters of which I desire to drink for a fortnight before I return to Lexington. My daughter Mildred is well enough for me to leave... Aug. 18, 1868
4003 Robert E. Lee E. C. Gordon I shall leave here tomorrow noon for the Hot & if nothing prevents shall leave there on Thursday the 10th for Lexington. It will depend upon the condition in which I find Mrs Lee and Mildred... Sep. 2, 1868
4004 Robert E. Lee Edward Lee Childe I have just recd your letter of the 3rd from Edinburgh, & hasten to say how sorry I am that you did not bring my niece with you. We shall be glad to see you however in whatever condition you... Sep. 17, 1868
4005 Robert E. Lee Helen Taylor I am very much obliged to you for the picture of the Washington family enclosed in your letter of the 22nd. It will be a pleasing addition to the other tokens of your kind remembrance & its... Sep. 29, 1868
4006 Robert E. Lee Edward Lee Childe I have just heard from Fitzhugh that you did not visit the White House, but would go directly on to Boston. In that event you will miss their letters which I forwarded to you at Washington City. I... Oct. 14, 1868
4007 Robert E. Lee George Henry Pierce I have no record of the number of battles in which I have been engaged & regret that I am unable to give you the information you desire.Very respy,R E LeeMr. Geo. Henry Pierce[1] Oct. 15, 1868
4008 Robert E. Lee Edward Lee Childe Yesterday your letter of the 20th arrived & to day that of the 22nd. I yesterday evg visited the Express office, but the packages sent by you had not reached Lexington, & the agent said... Oct. 25, 1868
4009 Robert E. Lee Edward Lee Childe I hope my letter to the care of Jameson Smith and Colling, New York, reached you before you sailed for Europe. I merely write now to inform you that all the boxes sent from Boston, books, wines,... Nov. 9, 1868
4010 Robert E. Lee Samuel H. Tagart Your kind letter of the 13th has been recd, & has caused quite a contest in the minds of certain gentlemen in Lexington between duty & pleasure. You will however expect their actions to be... Nov. 20, 1868
4011 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee Charles Carter Lee Your affectionate letter should have been sooner acknowledged my dear Carter but I have not recently felt in the writing vein which often seizes me & then all my correspondents suffer. I am... Nov. 28, 1868
4012 Charles Carter Lee Robert E. Lee You have hardly imagined how gratified I am at the letter from you which greeted my arrival here after my long absence, but I have been waiting from mail to mail to receive accounts of the Memoirs,... Dec. 3, 1868
4013 Robert E. Lee Abraham Minis I return you my thanks for the copy of the Records of the Union Society of the City of Savannah, an organization almost coequal with the Colonization of Georgia, which by its sacred works of... Dec. 5, 1868
4014 Robert E. Lee Jedediah Hotchkiss The Board of Survey desire that the preparation and publication of the series of County maps should be commenced. They prefer that those of Roanoke and Augusta should be the first brought out. They... Dec. 14, 1868
4015 Robert E. Lee Charles Carter Lee I am sorry to learn from your letter of Richardsons difficulties - Want of funds & credit may be at the bottom of them, but I do not think rival publishing houses are the most accurate... Dec. 22, 1868
4016 Robert E. Lee J. Wilcox Brown I am very much obliged to you for your letter of the 12th & the kind interest you have shown in my welfare. I approve highly of your views & especially your Cause, & feel satisfied that... Dec. 23, 1868
4017 Robert E. Lee J. Wilson Brown I am very much obliged to you for your letter of the 12th & the Kind interest you have shown in my welfare. I approve highly of your views & especially of your Cause, & feel satisfied... Dec. 23, 1868
4018 Agnes Lee Mary E. McCormick McDonald I have more currants than expected I am afraid it will be too great a task upon yr kindness, particularly as I do not know whether you wd prefer them prepared. Please do not undertake any more than... 1869
4019 Eleanor Agnes Lee Mary E. McCormick 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... 1869
4020 Eleanor Agnes Lee Mary E. McCormick McDonald A thousand thanks for the elegant jelly. Won 't you make Aunt Hannah sensible of our appreciation of her share in it by giving her this handkerchief all the way from Balt!Let Linas bring back... 1869
4021 Eleanor Agnes Lee Mary McDonald I am sorry you continue sick, - had intended coming A To ask after you this evening, but <mutilated> I will be prevented. You must eat some of these oranges for me instead. Hoping you will be... 1869
4022 Robert E. Lee William G. Miller Please prsent my thanks to the Committee of the Stonewall Fire Engine Company for their kind invitation to their Fourth Anniversary Celebration; & express to them my regrets at my inability to... Jan. 5, 1869
4023 Robert E. Lee A Committee of the Rockbridge Bible Society, William N. Pendleton, J. T. L. Preston, William White I have delayed applying to your letter informing me of my having been elected President of the Rockbridge Bible Society, not from want of interest in the subject, but from an apprehension that I... Jan. 11, 1869
4024 Robert E. Lee Charles Carter Lee I was glad to learn by your letter of the 1st that you & yours were in the enjoyment of good health & other blessings vouchsaved to us by a Merciful Providence, & pray that they may be... Jan. 15, 1869
4025 Robert E. Lee Leon Nicely I regret to have to state that one of the furnaces in the College chapel, & that in the Presidents house do not operate. We were able to have fire in the former for a few days, but in the... Jan. 19, 1869
4026 Robert E. Lee C. D. Hubbard I do not recollect the publication of a letter of mine such as you describe in the years 1865 '66. I never wrote a letter for publication though some without any agency get into the papers. A... Jan. 22, 1869
4027 Robert E. Lee Jedediah Hotchkiss I am glad to hear through Col Allan that the map has been forwarded & hope we may have it out as soon as possible.Your draft came yesterday & was honoured. I am much gratified to learn your... Jan. 24, 1869
4028 Robert E. Lee Charles Carter Lee Yours of the 22nd Ulto: is at hand & Henry proposes to leave us this afternoon. I am sorry for his departure & sorry for the cause. Although I was aware that he was labouring under... Feb. 9, 1869
4029 Robert E. Lee Kensey Johns Stewart I have been very remiss in acknowledging the copy of your Geography & a number of the ‘Library Magazine’ which you Kindly sent me two months ago. My excess is that my correspondence is so large... Feb. 11, 1869
4030 Robert E. Lee Nat Burwell, Jr. I have delayed replying to your kind letter of the 21st Ulto: until I could acknowledge the receipt of the robe & book of sermons you sent me. The robe is a very good one & I shall prize it... Feb. 15, 1869
4031 - - I hope by this time that your mind has sufficiently recovered its equilibrium from the pleasing & absorbing occurrences of the past two months, to enable you to read a letter from your old... Feb. 16, 1869
4032 Robert E. Lee Blanche de Trigueti I have wanted So much to thank you for your kind & affectionate letter of November, but I knew how much you would be occupied with the events then in prospective, but now realized, & felt... Feb. 16, 1869
4033 Robert E. Lee Martha Custis Williams Carter I am very sorry to learn from your letter of the 17th Inst: which I have just recd, that your health is still feeble, & that the cares & anxieties of your life consequently weigh heavily... Feb. 22, 1869
4034 Robert E. Lee Hamilton S. Neale I recd this mng your letter of the 17th Inst: - Since writing to you on the 9th my son W H F Lee has sent me your receipt for Cmmrs etc & explained about the bonds for deferred payments. I... Feb. 23, 1869
4035 Robert E. Lee George Wallace Jones I am very much gratified at the reception this mnt of your letter of the 16th inst.; enclosing for my perusal one that you had recd from Genl A. C. Dodge, and which as you have given me permission,... Mar. 22, 1869
4036 Robert E. Lee Washington College Student Body The Faculty has learned with regret that some of the students of the College are making preparations to organize a tumultuous & disorderly procession through the streets of Lexington on the eve... Mar. 30, 1869
4037 Robert E. Lee the Students of Washington College The Faculty have learned with regret that Some of the Students of the College are making preparations to organize a tumultuous & disorderly procession through the Streets of Lexington on the... Mar. 30, 1869
4038 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee My dear brother Carter I will commence a reply to your interesting letter My dear brother Carter which in spite of the burden of years you complain of, is very uprightly & the Muse seems not to have forsaken you, she... Apr. 1869
4039 Robert E. Lee Mrs. F. S. Cater I have seen with regret for some time that your son, W. E. Cater has been neglectful of his studies and have tried through his Professors to urge him to greater application. I have endeavored in my... Apr. 2, 1869
4040 Robert E. Lee Mrs. F. S. Cater I have seen with regret for some time that your son W. E. Cater has been neglectful of his studies, & have tried through his Professors to urge him to greater application. I have endeavoured in... Apr. 2, 1869
4041 Robert E. Lee Frank Barnett I have never seen Mr. Greeley'sConflict, and am, therefore, unable to account of Colonel Washington's death to be correct or not.Very respectfully yrR E Lee May 1869
4042 Robert E. Lee Samuel H. Tagart I have just read in the Baltimore Sun of this morg, 3rd May a dispatch from Washington, purporting to give an account of my interview with President Grant on Saturday last. As you were present you... May 3, 1869
4043 Robert E. Lee Dr. Albert Taylor Bledsoe I have recd a letter from Genl E. G. W. Butler[1] of Louisiana, who had his two sons[2] in the late war, saying that Prince Leopold,[3] queen Victorias youngest Son, had expressed through Mrs.... May 15, 1869
4044 Robert E. Lee Samuel H. Tagart I have desired every day since my arrival to write to you, to inform you of my safe arrival & of the welbeing of my family & neighbors; but when I began to reflect upon you & Mrs Tagart... May 18, 1869
4045 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee Letitia McCreery Burwell I need not assure you my dear Lettie[1] now much pleasure it will give us all to have you with us at commencement. We shall move into our new house[2] next week & shall have always room for you... May 25, 1869
4046 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee Letitia McCreery Burwell I need not assure you my dear Lettie now much pleasure it will give us all to have you with us at commencement. We shall move into our new house next week & shall have always room for you even... May 25, 1869
4047 Charles Marshall Walter H. Taylor I shall be greatly obliged if you will give me as soon as possible your estimate of Jackson’s & Longstreet’s effective force at 2nd Manassas on the 29th & 30th. I have made an estimate... Jun. 9, 1869
4048 Walter H. Taylor Charles Marshall Yours of the 9th only reached me yesterday. It is with considerable difficulty that I can at this time recall all of the details of the operations of our army during its several campaigns. So many... Jun. 12, 1869
4049 Robert E. Lee Joseph Desha With pleasure I inform you of the action of the Faculty commdending your son C. Desha for uniform regularity of attendance upon his duties & for steady improvement in his studies during the... Jun. 26, 1869
4050 Robert E. Lee David A. Deaderick With pleasure I inform you of the action of the Faculty commending your son, C. Deaderick for uniform regularity of attendance upon his his duties & for steady improvement in his studies during... Jun. 26, 1869