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The Lee Family Digital Archive is the largest online source for primary source materials concerning the Lee family of Virginia. It contains published and unpublished items, some well known to historians, others that are rare or have never before been put online. We are always looking for new letters, diaries, and books to add to our website. Do you have a rare item that you would like to donate or share with us? If so, please contact our curator, Colin Woodward, about how you can contribute to this historic project.


 

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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

 

 

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