Manuscripts
Robert E. Lee letters to Martha Custis Williams
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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
Death of General Robert E. Lee at Lexington, Va., October 12th, 1870, aged, 62 years, 8 months and 6 days
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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Robert E. (Robert Edward) Lee letter to Sydney Smith Lee
Manuscripts
Lee speaks of military and naval details, and regrets being unable to visit in person. Possible forgery.
mssHM 15554
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William E. Lovett letters to Elizabeth Lovett Lee Davis
Manuscripts
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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Queen of Hawaii, Liliuokalani letters to William Lee
Manuscripts
The letters authored by Queen Liliuokalani were written to her husband's cousin William Lee, of Lee and Shephard Publishers, while she was visiting Washington D.C. These letters deal chiefly with her book Hawaii's story by Hawaii's Queen. Liliuokalani asks Lee questions about copyright and strategies for selling the book. She also writes that she is going to sign three copies and send them to Queen Victoria, President William McKinley and Grover Cleveland; one letter mentions Gerrit P. Judd and Richard Armstrong
mssHM 59567-59570
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Miner, Abby E.] 1 letter to Martha [M. Miner], Lima (N.Y.)
Manuscripts
The correspondence of Alexander Douglas Miner consists almost entirely of letters sent by Miner addressed to his daughter, Martha Matilda Miner, a college student attending Oberlin College in Ohio. The letters sent from Miner to Martha span from 1852 to 1872. Some of the letters include a postscript from Martha's mother, Abby E. Miner.
HM 80942