Burke
Fairfax County
Apr. 1st 1904
My dear Miss Alice
It is very hard for me to decline your very kind invitation for the 8th of April, but unfortunately I have an engagement [covering?] that time, and although not of a very diminutive size, yet I have not reached the proportions that will permit of my being in two places at once.
I appreciate your hospitality very much, and hope I may have the pleasure of seeing you in the near future.
Very sincerely,
R. E. Lee Jr.
Source: The Archives of the Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation, Papers of the Lee Family, Box 5, M2009.478, Jessie Ball duPont Library, Stratford Hall
Transcribed by Colin Woodward, 2015 November 30