Manuscripts
Robert E. (Robert Edward) Lee letter to Sydney Smith Lee
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Richard H. Kern letter to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Manuscripts
Kern regrets being unable to meet with Schoolcraft to discuss the expedition of Coronado, and hopes to hear from him in the near future.
mssHM 20655
Robert E. Lee, letter to Martha Custis Williams, January 22, 1861
Manuscripts
An eight page letter from Robert E. Lee to his cousin Martha Custis Williams.
mssHM 8831
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Robert E. Lee letters to Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee
Manuscripts
Five letters that Robert E. Lee wrote to his wife during his service in Virginia and the Midwest (the summer of 1835): 1832, April 17, Old Point Comfort, Va. (HM 20560); 1832, July 6, Old Point Comfort, Va. (HM 23236); 1833, November 27, Fort Monroe, Va. (HM 23096); 1835, August 21, Detroit, Mich. (HM 20561), and 1835, September 2, South Bend, Ill. (HM 20562).
mssHM 20560-20562, HM 23096, HM 23236
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Robert A. Millikan letter to Robert P. Hastings
Manuscripts
In this letter, Robert Millikan sends his regrets on not being able to attend the Thacher dinner due to other commitments.
mssHM 52281
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Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary letter to George Rockwood
Manuscripts
In this letter, written to New York City photographer, George Rockwood, Peary is paying for and asking about photographs of himself (that Rockwood took and sent to him) that he had received yet. Peary also promises to send Rockwood a copy of his "Arctic narrative" (his book Northward over the "great ice," published in 1898). The letter may be written by another person, but Peary signed it. There is also a note, possibly by Rockwood, "Have ordered 1dz" on page two.
mssHM 79890
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Robert Tyler Lee family photographs
Visual Materials
Photographs of the Lee family at home, portraits of the family, and photographs taken on various trips including Yosemite, Lake Superior, and others.
photCL 274