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Fitzhugh Lee

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Fitzhugh Lee

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Auction Date:2012 Jul 18 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
American soldier and politician (1835–1905), nephew of Robert E. Lee, who was a Confederate cavalry general during the Civil War and a general during the Spanish-American War. In the interval between the two wars, Lee served as Governor of Virginia and Consul General at Havana. ALS, in pencil, five pages, 8 x 10, January 14, 1898. Letter written as American Consul at Havana, describing the civil war then raging in Cuba only weeks prior to the explosion that destroyed the U.S.S. Maine. In part: “We have had a high old time here since Wednesday morning last. A regular Monkey & Son time, Mobs-riots-streets filled with excited people yelling death to Blanco! Muerta (death) to Autonomeinal viva Weyler &c &c. The attack was started by Spanish officers some 50 in number who broke into and destroyed a newspaper office. The Reconcentration is a newspaper in favor of autonomy. A large crowd followed them & they then came up to the La Discussion paper which had its office just to the left of Ivy lnglaterra as you look at the square. lt was formerly an insurgent paper or leaned that way & Weyler suppressed it and its editor fled out of the country & returned going to the Insurgents-his name was Coronado or some such name…By this time the officers has quite a crowd behind them-the foremost men rushed into the building over some of its police etc and tore up everything…and the crowd yelling and shouting muerta Blanco… the streets are crowded with the regular soldiers-Infantry and Cavalry there is a strong undercurrent of feeling and excitement vs Blanco and Autonomy. Nothing so far against the U.S. I feel very sorry for ole Blanco because he has been sent here to do an impossible thing - his own troop regulars will not support him in it and the volunteers the local defense fellows are very bitter…These fellows in all this are the extreme Spaniards…They all prefer U.S… Annexation to Autonomy. Whatever may be the outcome of all this, it demonstrates the failure of autonomy…all classes may ask for U.S. intervention. It is only thing left now and it has become whether to question. We are on the eve of something interesting.” Accompanied by the original mailing envelope. Partial separations and tears along fragile folds, uniform toning to all pages, scattered creases and edge chips, and a trimmed bottom edge to last page, otherwise very good condition.
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