Auction Date:2012 Mar 14 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : 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
ALS signed “RE Lee,” one page, lightly-lined, 5 x 8, August 8, 1866. Letter to Reverend William White, written from Lexington, Virginia. In full: “I have rec’d your note of the 31st Ulto: accompd the work of the Revd Dr. James Craik, ‘The Divine Life,’ & must beg you to express to the author my sincere thanks for his kind remembrance of me.” Matted and framed with a portrait of Lee to an overall size of 17 x 15. Letter appears to have been reinforced with paper. In fine condition, with a central vertical fold, a uniform shade of mild toning, and a small separation near bottom of page.
Reverend Doctor Craik, the rector of Christ Church in Lexington, Kentucky and the author of The Divine Life, was the grandson of the Doctor James Craik who accompanied Washington on the 1755 Braddock expedition, later serving the president throughout the entire Revolutionary War as surgeon-general and personal physician. His wife was the sister of Mrs. George Washington Parke Custis, the mother of Robert E. Lee.
A devout Christian his entire life, Lee prayed daily, carrying a book of Common Prayer with him during the war and he was often seen kneeling in prayer as his Rebel troops marched by. In this letter to White, the former general thanked the reverend for Craik's "kind remembrance of me," the gift of his book which explored the universality of redemption and its benefits as applied to the necessities of man and how one achieves "the divine life" through salvation. Lee's personal copy of the The Divine Life was donated to the Virginia Historical Society in 1961.
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