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Creator
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870
Call number
MssCol 4523
Physical description
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Preferred Citation
Robert E. Lee correspondence and miscellany, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
Repository
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Location
MssCol 4523
Access to materials
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Collection consists of letters to and from General Robert E. Lee pertaining to social matters, and to the resignation of W. Eugene Webster (son of William G. Webster and cousin of Mary Custis Lee) from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Also present are several letter fragments; a 1865 letter to Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet pertaining to Lee documents; and a transcript of Lee's remarks "on the report of Major General J. B. Magruder of the operations of his command near Richmond."

Administrative information

Custodial history

Some material was originally received as part of the Thomas Addis Emmet and Ford collections, and the David McNeely Stauffer papers.

Using the collection

Location

Manuscripts and Archives Division
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328