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Start Over Creator Lee, Mary Custis, 1835-1918
The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon

Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933

approx. 60 Linear Feet

This collection of historic manuscripts dates from 1607-1933, with the bulk of materials dating from 1738-1868. The correspondence, journals and diaries, legal and financial records, estate documents, and printed ephemera in the collection primarily relate to the Washington and Custis families, the Revolutionary War, and society life in antebellum Washington D.C. and Virginia.

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Letter, Mary Custis Lee to Benson Lossing, 1858 Box 76, Folder 1858.12.13

A.L.S. 2 pages. Arlington. [Regarding publication of her father's Memoirs] Sends by Col. [R.E.] Lee her "Memoir" and other papers--also all letters between G.W. and her grandfather [J.P. Custis]--"I only suggest that if you publish the will of my ancestor it may be as well to omit for the sake of our Northern readers the names of all the slaves mentioned in the legacies."--sends him an engraving of Mrs. W. and a daguerre of Mrs. Lewis--title page to have title her father put to his work--hopes the work [G.W.P. Custis's Recollections] will come out shortly--will try to find the speech on the overthrow of Napoleon for Lossing--doesn't care for more mention of her name in title page than is there at present. Name on original manuscript appears as "M. C. Lee."

  1. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  2. Manuscripts Box 76, 1858/1859
Virginia Military Institute Archives

Robert E. Lee and Lee Family papers, 1779/1926

14 items

The Robert E. Lee and Lee Family papers consist of the personal papers of Robert E. Lee and Mary Custis Lee, including documents bearing their signatures. The papers also include one one letter (dated February 1926) from Mrs. William A. Anderson to Sydney B. Williamson that relates the history of a quilt made by Mary Custis Lee that was donated to the VMI Museum.

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Note, 1913

Notecard written by Mary Custis Lee that presents buttons to VMI.

Robert E. Lee and Lee Family papers, 1779/1926 14 items

Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870

The Robert E. Lee and Lee Family papers consist of the personal papers of Robert E. Lee and Mary Custis Lee, including documents bearing their signatures. The papers also include one one letter (dated February 1926) from Mrs. William A. Anderson to Sydney B. Williamson that relates the history of a quilt made by Mary Custis Lee that was donated to the VMI Museum.

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