December 17, 1864.
I received day before yesterday the box with hat, gloves,
and socks; also the barrel of apples. You had better have kept the latter, as
it would have been more useful to you than to me, and I should have enjoyed its
consumption by yourself and the girls more than by me.
SOURCE: John William Jones, Life and Letters of
Robert Edward Lee: Soldier and Man, p. 348
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