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VHS Makes Recently Discovered Robert E. Lee Papers Available To Public
For the past three years, VHS archivists have been inventorying and cataloging the contents of two wooden trunks found at Burke & Herbert Bank & Trust Company in Alexandria, Virginia, in 2002. These trunks, discovered by Robert E. L. deButts, Jr., and E. Hunt Burke, contained letters, legal papers, journals, travel souvenirs, financial records, and smaller artifacts that were collected by Mary Custis Lee, the eldest daughter of General Robert E. Lee. And, for the first time, the VHS will make the majority of this extensive collection available to researchers through the Society's library reading room beginning May 31, 2007.
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Mary Custis Lee Trunks
The trunks discovered by Robert E. L. deButts, Jr., and E. Hunt Burke, contained letters, legal papers, journals, travel souvenirs, financial records, and smaller artifacts that were collected by Mary Custis Lee, the eldest daughter of General Robert E. Lee. |
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The trunks discovered by Robert E. L. deButts, Jr., and E. Hunt Burke, contained letters, legal papers, journals, travel souvenirs, financial records, and smaller artifacts that were collected by Mary Custis Lee, the eldest daughter of General Robert E. Lee. |
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Pictured from left to right: Burke & Herbert Bank Chairman Charlie Collum; Robert E. L. deButts, Jr.; author Elizabeth Brown Pryor; Burke & Herbert Bank President & COO E. Hunt Burke; Assistant VHS Archivist Paige Newman; Senior VHS Archivist E. Lee Shepard; and VHS Board of Trustees Chairman E. Claiborne Robins, Jr.
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Pictured from left to right: VHS Board of Trustees Chairman E. Claiborne Robins, Jr.; Robert E. L. deButts, Jr.; Burke & Herbert Bank President & COO E. Hunt Burke; Burke & Herbert Bank Chairman Charlie Collum; and VHS Board of Trustees Honorary Vice-Chairman Brenton S. Halsey. |
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E. Lee Shepard speaks to Charlie Collum, Robert E. L. deButts, Jr., and Elizabeth Brown Pryor about preservation efforts of the Mary Custis Lee trunk contents by Virginia Historical Society staff. |
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Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Elizabeth Brown Pryor signs copies of her book, Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through his Private Letters. |
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Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Elizabeth Brown Pryor signs copies of her new book for guests after her Banner Lecture at the Virginia Historical Society on May 24, 2007. |
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