Correspondences, 1886
- Containers:
- Box 13, Folder 4
- Scope and content:
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Letter from E.C.(Edward Clifford)Gordon, former Washington College Clerk of Faculty, to Col. William Allan of th eMcDonough institute in Baltimore, Md. and former mathematics professor at Washington College between 1866 and 1873 regarding an accompanying memo book in which Gordon documented a long conversation he had with Robert E. Lee on February 16, 1868. A main theme of the letter is the content from the memo book regarding the story of Lee's "Lost Dispatch" during his Maryland Campaign of 1862. The second letter accompanied the memo book when it was given by Louisa P. Allan, Col. William Allan's daughter - in - law, to Washington and Lee University President Francis Pendleton Gaines in 1946.
- Language:
- English
Access and use
- Location of collection:
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