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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Lee-Jackson Foundation Collection, WLU Coll 0170, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Lee-Jackson Foundation of Charlottesville, Va.

Scope and Contents

The sixteen R.E. Lee items cover a date span of 22 years from 1847 through 1869. There are ten letters of Mrs. Mary Randolph Custis Lee ranging from the early 1850s to shortly before her death in 1873.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• American Confederate voluntary exiles
• Confederate States of America
• Correspondence
• Lee, Agnes
• Lee, George Washington Custis
• Lee, Mary Randolph Custis, 1807-1883
• Lee, Mildred Childe, 1846-1905
• Lee, Robert E., Jr., 1843-1914
• Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1837-1891
• Lee-Jackson Foundation
• Mexico