Premier Auction
Sat, Jul 10, 2021 09:00AM EDT
Lot 778
Library of Books on Robert E. Lee from Family
Estimate: $500 - $700
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19 hardcover titles, one softcover pamphlet, includes Lee related newspaper clippings and notes that appear to be genealogy related (some referencing the Bolling-Pocahontas connection)ÿ
Provenance: Collection from a Direct Descendant of Robert E. LeeNote:Interior inscriptions indicate that many of these once reposed in the library of Alfred Walton Fleming, a descendant of Richard Bland Lee. Recollections and Letters of General Lee with the inscription "from your friend and cousin/Robert E. Lee/October 1904" and is likely from the hand of Robert E. Lee Jr.
Another, The Lees of Virginia, with the margin notation "never have these poor ears of mine been asailed [sic] with so much crap of a low veriety" [sic] in reference to an entry found to be apparently too favorable to Lincoln and his Monument. The notation's author is unknown to us.
A full title and author listing is as follows: With Lee in Virginia by G.A. Henty; Robert E. Lee and the Southern Confederacy by Henry A. White; Robert E. Lee, The Southerner by Thomas Nelson Page; Recollections and Letters of General Lee by (his son) Capt. Robert E. Lee (two copies, one signed); Four Years Under Marse Robert by Major Robert Stiles; To Markie: The Letters of Robert E. Lee to Martha Custis Williams; Four Years with General Lee by Walter Taylor; The Lees of Virginia by Burton Hendrick; Personal Reminiscences of Gen. Robert E. Lee by Rev. William Jones; Memoirs of Robert E. Lee by A.L. Long; Genealogical History of the Lee Family by Edward Mead; Robert E. Lee by William P. Trent; Life and Letters of Robert Edward Lee by J. William Jones; Stratford and the Lees: Connected with Its History by F.W. Alexander; General Lee by Fitzhugh Lee (his nephew); Lee The American by Gamaliel Bradford; Lee’s Confidential Dispatches to Davis: 1862 to 1865; The Wartime Papers of R.E. Lee edited by Dowdey and Manarin; Magazine of the Society of the Lees of Virginia, Vol. 1 No. 2 (pamphlet)Condition
mostÿin fair condition with typical foxing, bumped corners, discoloration, tender hinges, some penned inscriptions, one with fully separated boardÿ
