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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 43 1 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 33 3 Browse Search
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899 28 4 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 28 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 24 2 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 15 3 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 14 0 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 8 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 8 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment 6 0 Browse Search
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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 1: ancestry. (search)
me, he writes, in arms or art, is naught unless betrothed to virtue. And then: You know I love my children, and how dear Smith Sydney Smith Lee, of the navy. is to me. Give me a true description of his mind, temper, and habits. Tell me of Anne. brother of her stepmother. The children by General Henry Lee's second marriage were Algernon Sydney, Charles Carter, Sydney Smith, and Robert Edward, and two daughters, Anne and Mildred. The first boy lived only eighteen months. The second, named ree-hearted. When paying visits with his brothers-and the three often went together — should wine happen to be offered, Smith and Robert with their usual abstemiousness would decline; Carter, however, would accept, remarking: I have always told thand be irresistible. He died, and was buried at his country seat, Windsor Forest, in Powhatan County. The third son, Sydney Smith, entered the United States Navy at an early age, and served with marked distinction in that service for thirty-four ye