1

OverviewTranscribeVersionsHelp

Facsimile

Transcription

Status: Indexed

Lexington VA: 8 June 1870

Mrs. D. C. Kennedy
Springfield Mo:
In Compliance
with your request I enclose a lock of
my hair for the object stated in
your letter of the 20 ult: to aid in
raising funds for Collecting & burying
the Confederate dead in Missouri.
I Cannot decline rendering any
assistance I can to such an object
though the mode of doing it which
you propose is not the most agreable
to me
[?] your ObtServt

R E Lee

Notes and Questions

Please sign in to write a note for this page

Nathani

I read this as:

Lexington VA: 8 June 1870

Mrs D. C. Kennedy
Springfield Mo

In compliance
with your request I enclose a lock of
my hair in the object stated in
your letter of the 20 [M?]: to aid in
raising funds for collecting and burying
the Confederate dead in Missouri.
I cannot decline rendering any
assistance I can to such an object
though the mode of doing it which
you propose is not the most agreable
to me.

[?] [?] your obediant servant

R E Lee