Lot 1351
Lee, Fitzhugh. Typed Letter Signed, one page, 7" x 8", Glasgow, Va., Feb. 16, 1891. On Rockbridge Company letterhead, to Henry T. Lamb, regretting that his duties are "so exacting, constant and pressing, that I…will not be able to find time to comply with your request to write an account of a battle." The signature is huge and beautiful. Accompanied by a panoramic photograph (11½" x 3½") of "Gen. Fitzhugh's [sic] Lee and Staff Camp Columbia, Havana" by "Russell Bros." of Anniston, Alabama. Both items are matted and framed together to 17¼" x 17¼"; lower edge of frame is damaged. After the Civil War, Fitzhugh, nephew to General Robert E. Lee, served as Governor of Virginia (1886-90), as consul general at Havana (1896-98), and as major general of volunteers in the Spanish-American War, which is when this photograph would have been taken. Lee was military governor of Havana in 1899.
Estimated Value $300 - 400.
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| Realized $173 |
