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Interior and exterior photographs of Lee House
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0185
Dates:
1869 - 1870
R.E. Lee Memorial Church Collection
Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0658
Scope and Contents
A one page letter from Mary Randolph Custis Lee to Mrs. Appich, likely Mary E. Appich of Fairfax, Virginia, thanking her for previous letters and offering a photograph of Robert E. Lee. The letter is accompanied by an albumen cabinet-sized photograph of Robert E. Lee likely by photographer Michael Miley of Lexington, Va. The photograph includes an attached clipped R.E. Lee signature. The reverse of the photograph is inscribed to Mrs. Appich from Mrs. Lee and dated June 12, 1873. Also...
Dates:
Letter; Majority of material found within Photograph
Robert Selph Henry Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0341
Scope and Contents
Includes copies of correspondence between Robert Henry and Douglas Southall Freeman about Freeman writing a foreword for Henry's book The Story of the Conferderacy as well as copies of correspondence between Washington and Lee University Dean Frank Gilliam and Major Edward C. Betts about a Boude and Miley photograph of Robert E. Lee owned by Betts and used by Henry in this book.
Dates:
Inclusive 1936-1938