Miss Nellie

                        I suppose you will wonder at my seeming impudence in daring thus to write this, after having so long delayed in sending my picture in return for the lovely little token of you, that your sister sent me in your name—perhaps you thought indifference had led me to neglect your kind condescension—"God forbid such a thought"! Now—I hope you are prepared to hear my excuse, the letter was taken from the Office by one of the boys who forgot to give it to me 'till yesterday. Enclosed is the picture, I can hardly hope that it may meet with the appreciation yours received. Hoping that you will pardon / my seeming neglect, I remain

 

Your devoted

W . . . . . .

 

may I hope for an answer?

 

[verso]

 

[drawings of cupid and arrow pierced heart]

Miss Nellie

 

[note in another hand]

 

From Winslow Haxton to me—I was twelve, he fifteen. He died while at school (where he was when this was written) a few months afterwards of typhoid fever

 

[enclosed fragment]

 

About General Washington

Mrs S S Lees letter to Miss Murray about her son Fitzhugh six months old

A letter to me from my earliest sweet heart Winslow Haxton, He fifteen, I, twelve

                                                U. B. Lee

Invitation to Rob at West Point sent by General Fitzhugh Lee to his Godmother Mrs Fitzhugh when he was a cadet

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