Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains primary and secondary resources pertaining to Robert E. Lee and the Lee family. Included are correspondences from, to, and about Lee and various family members; memorabilia, pamphlets, photographs, reminiscences, miscellaneous personal papers, family history and genealogy. The collection includes materials acquired from the Lee family and items donated to and purchased and compiled by W&L University since Lee's tenure as president of Washington College from 1865...

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Frederick A. P. Barnard sends Robert E. Lee an introduction and recommendation for Robert B. White, D. D. to be chair of the department of Mental and Moral Philosophy at Washington College.

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Charles P. Stone offers coal to Washington College from Dover Mines, his coal mining company in Goochland, Virginia. Stone was a Union general during the American Civil War and ran the Dover Mines until 1869.

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Former Confederate Cheif Medical Officer Lafayette Guild writes a letter of introduction to Robert E. Lee for William G. Cochrane, a new Washington College student. Guild mentions that he's been in contact with former Confederate general Walter H. Stevens who was in Mexico.

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Burr Harrison McCown requests two catalogues of Washington College - one for him, and one for Joseph Henry in Leavenworth, Kansas.

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J. B. Moore requests a catalogue of Washington College.

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J. Hewett offers Robert E. Lee the position of superintendent of Natchez Institute (Mississippi).

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Aaron Howell Pierson Sr. acknowledges receipt of a letter from Lee explaining that his son, Aaron Howell Pierson Jr., needs to attend preparatory school.

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Lawyer James Patterson Rogers writes to Washington College president Robert E. Lee representing Lieutenant Samuel S. Mathers, a former Union soldier from West Virginia. Rogers relays that Lieutenant Mathers wished to return an original letter written by George Washington to the trustess of Washington Academy which he's taken from Washington College in 1864 during Hunter's Raid.