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- GLC#
- GLC07542
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- February 13, 1866
- Author/Creator
- Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870
- Title
- to Ralph Site
- Place Written
- Lexington, Virginia
- Pagination
- 3 p. : docket ; Height: 25.8 cm, Width: 20.3 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Fulfills a request for a prospectus of the course of study available at Washington College, where Lee served as president. In a letter on the verso of the printed prospectus, Lee comments that he was obliged for Site's 1859 report to the Ohio Legislature and writes: "I hope the country will yet retain the system of Government established by our forefathers." Two printed pages of the prospectus, and one page handwritten letter.
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