Manuscripts

Robert E. Lee letters to Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee

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Description: 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).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1832-1835.
Call number: mssHM 20560-20562, HM 23096, HM 23236
Creator: Lee, Robert E (1807-1870)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased by Mr. Huntington from Rose Van Horn, through the agency of the Rosenbach Company, unknown year.
Associated people: Lee, Mary Randolph Custis,; Van Horn, Rose,
Associated organization: Rosenbach Company.
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