Letter, Mary Custis Lee to Benson Lossing

Containers:

Box 76, Folder 1858.12.13

Creator:

Lee, Mary Custis, 1835-1918

Scope and content:

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."

Language:

English .

Subjects:

Slavery
Correspondence

Names:

Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
Lee, Mary Custis, 1835-1918
Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891

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