2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
Manuscript scrapbook, +/- 100pp., 72pp in manuscript, several pages not present, 7-1/2” x 10,” loose at spine, good. A large number of memorials with paste down inserts of leaves, cards, newspaper clippings including a two-page memorial to “Gen. Robert E. Lee,” which presents a leaf wreath with manuscript, “In Memory of Gen. R.E. Lee, leaves gathered from the grave of his mother at 12 o’clock, Oct 15, 1870.” This is the exact time and date that Lee’s body was conveyed to the Washington College chapel. The back of the scrapbook includes several geneology pages.
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