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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 It contains published and unpublished items, some well known to historians, others that are rare or have never before been put online.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 editor, Colin Woodward, at  (804) 493-1940, about how you can contribute to this historic project.


 

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C. S. Brainerd

Haddam Conn:

                        Fort Hamilton N. Y.

                        21 May 1842

You will find below a list of certain house stones delivered by you on the 17 Inst, but rejected on account of them containing iron. They are numbered and marked as follows in red ink

Letter  Dimensions

Feet     in

(large circle)

F          4          5

G          3          9

G          4          6  ¾

G          4          3 ½

G          5          1 ¼

H          3          11

(Small circle)                          

I           4          8

 

I have to request that you will make good this deficiency as early as practicable. This statement with an account of the complete sets that were delivered was made out for you on the 19th but I had no opportunity of sending them before I recd your letter of the 20th. In compliance with the request contained therein I now forward the statement to Haddam.

Very respectfully your obt svt

 

RE LEE

Capt Engrs

Source: The Archives of the Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation, Papers of the Lee Family, Box 3, M2009.201, Jessie Ball duPont Library, Stratford Hall

 

Transcribed by Colin Woodward, 2015 September 3

 

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