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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Robert E. Lee, letter to Martha Custis Williams, January 22, 1861
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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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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
Visual Materials
Image of General Robert E. Lee on his deathbed in Lexington, Virginia, in 1870; his children General Custis Lee, Mildred Lee, and Agnes Lee mourn at his bedside while a physician and clergyman look on.
priJLC_MIL_001215
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Manuscripts
Lee speaks of military and naval details, and regrets being unable to visit in person. Possible forgery.
mssHM 15554
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In these two letters to his cousin, dated 1863, September 3 and 1864, January 15, William E. Lovett writes of political details in California, and advises Elizabeth on her own personal legal matters. HM 16515 also contains a short note written in a different hand addressed "Dear Mom" and signed "Your son, John."
mssHM 16515-16516
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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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Correspondence of Martha D. Stone and her extended family. Martha D. Stone's correspondence contains letters and documents on family history, including those from 1908 to 1909. Besides the family members, the correspondents include Greenlee D. Letcher, Lawrence Washington (1836-1926) and Frank P. Flint. Also included are four letters, 1916 to 1918, from Jordan M. Stone describing his life in Banning and Pasadena, California, and photographs of Jordan M. and William Welch Stone at Hollister Ranch, California. Jonathan C. Gibson's correspondence includes two letters to his wife written while away from home; the letter of October 18, 1817, contains a vivid description of the flood of emigrants headed to "Mizura;" the letters to his daughter written between 1840 and 1846 discuss family and local news of Culpeper County and details of some cases that he argued. Also included is a letter, 1821, January, from his kinsman and a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, Fayette Ball (1791-1836), describing bills under consideration. Letters that Frances Ann Gibson Welch Burt and J. Mallory Welch exchanged in the summer of 1844, during her visit to Virginia. In the letter of August 10, 1844, written on pro-Clay pictorial stationery, she described a "Whig festival" in Dandridge, attended by some "thousand persons;" and on August 26, 1844, she gives an account of a Methodist camp meeting in "Prince William Springs." Also included are letters from her friends and relatives. The letter, January 1, 1847, of her friend Mary V. Moore describes her stay at the Olympian Springs, Kentucky, her wedding to a young man she met there, and the busy social life of a newlywed in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. There are also the journal and letters of Mary Emma (Mamie) Cathell Grace (1861-1937), a native of Philadelphia who attended New Orleans High School. The first portion of the diary covers the school year of 1878, the entries describe school studies, including lessons taught by Susan Blanchard Elder (1835-1923) and Mary Humphrey Stamps (1835-); the Mardi Gras festivities, particularly the parade staged by the Knights of Momus, the outbreak of yellow fever, etc. The second portion of the diary gives an account of her trip to Philadelphia to meet her father and siblings. In 1885, Mamie married Dr. Jesse Edward Grace (1852-1895) and moved to Weimar, Texas. The collection also includes photographs, newspaper clippings from The Asheville Citizen, and ephemera.
mssHM 74669