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Title |
Custis-Lee Family Papers |
Date |
1806-1857 |
Object Name |
Manuscript |
Collection |
Custis-Lee Family Papers |
Catalog Number |
MS5 |
Scope & Content |
The Custis-Lee Family Papers range from 1806-1857 and include correspondence, literary productions, bills, and receipts of George Washington Parke Custis (1781-1857), correspondence to his wife Mary Lee (Fitzhugh) Custis (1788-1853), to his daughter Mary Anna Randolph (Custis) Lee (1808-1873), and of his son-in-law Robert E. Lee (1807-1870). George Washington Parke Custis was the brother of Martha (Custis) Peter (1777-1854). These documents entered the collection under the aegis of Martha (Williams) Carter (1827-1899), George Washington Parke Custis' great niece, who spent much time at Arlington House caring for him. |
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Finding Aid |
People |
Custis, George Washington Parke (1781-1857) Custis, Mary Lee (Fitzhugh) (1788-1853) Lee, Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward) Williams, William G., Capt. Lossing, Benson John Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de (1757 - 1834) Byrne, John Quincy, Josiah Logan, George W. Fish, Hamilton Montserrat, El Marques de Hallowell, Benjamin Bolton, Robert Upham, Charles W. Pierce, Franklin Draper, Lyman C. Neill, Edward Duffield Rogers, Edmund Law La Fayette, George Washington Hand, John Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth Sparks, Jared Berret, James G. Meade, W. Lunt, Henry Headley, Joel Tyler Meigs, M.C. Johnson, J. Augustus Peale, Rembrandt |
Subjects |
Georgetown Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial (Va.) Correspondence Scrapbooks Philodemic Society of Georgetown College Literature and society |