This collection consists of a diary and three letters written by Henry Lee III; also included are three land grants and one military commission signed by Lee during his tenure as governor of Virginia.

This collection consists of a diary and three letters written by Henry Lee III; also included are three land grants and one military commission signed by Lee during his tenure as governor of Virginia.

The diary was given to Henry Lee's son, General Robert E. Lee during the American Civil War by John H. Chandler of Westmoreland, Co. Va., a soldier of the 40th Virginia Infantry Regiment. Chandler received the diary from his father, who discovered it "in a bundle of old papers he had occassion to examine..." The original Civil War period letter accompanying th gifted diary is cataloged among the Robert E. Lee papers in WLU's archives.