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- GLC#
- GLC09256
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 6 June 1860
- Author/Creator
- Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870
- Title
- to Anna Fitzhugh
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 4 p. :
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
To cousin Anna Fitzhugh, an intimate letter written on the eve of the Civil War, reporting on family news and revealing his personal anxieties and troubles: "A divided heart I have too long had, & a divided life too long led. That may be one cause of the small progress I have made on either hand, my professional & civil career. Success is not always attained by a single undivided effort. It rarely follows a halting vacillating course. My military duties require me here, whereas my affections & urgent domestic claims call me away. And thus I live & am unable to advance either. But while I live I must toil & trust."
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