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Robert E. Lee to S. S. Scranton & Co., 1867 March 4

Lexington, Va., 4 March 1867.

Messrs. S. S. Scranton & Co.

126 Asylum St., Hartford Conn.

My Dear Sir:

I have received your letter of the 28th ult. in relation to the publication of the work I contemplated on the campaigns in Va.; and thank you for the interest you evince on the subject. I think it best to defer its publication; and my [views] in reference [then] to, are now the same as when I wrote to you in March last. I therefore can not make you an offer on the subject, and am not prepared to receive any from you. I am much obliged to you for the 2d vol. of Headley’s History; and with my kind regards, in which I am joined by my son,

I am very respectfully,

yr. obdt. Svt.

(sgd) R. E. Lee

 

 

Source: Photocopy of letterbook copy, Lee Family Papers, Mss1 L51 c 738, pp. 22-23, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond

Transcribed by Katie Hall, 2018 June 12

 

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