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Frank Preston, to whom I was much attached and for whom I had a high esteem. Give my love to Bertus. Tell him I hope Mrs. Taylor will retain one of her little daughters for him. She always reserves the youngest of the flock from Custis, as he is not particular as to an early date. "Your affectionate father, "R. E. Lee. "General William H. F. Lee."
I inclose a note from your mother, transmitted on the supposition that I would write to you. Professor White is with me and I have some few acquaintances, but I am anxious to return. I am glad that Bertus has had a short visit to the Orange. He says that he will come to Rockbridge in September. Custis will be there by the first, and we shall all, I hope, be together again. "Affectionately,
Bertus will also be remembered, and I hope that the festivities of 'Brandon' will not drive from his memory the homely board at Lexington. I trust that he will enjoy himself and find some on to fill that void in his heart as completely as he will the one in his system.
Give my love to F. and Johnny, in which all here unite, and believe me most truly and affectionately "Your father, R. E. Lee. "Robert E. Lee." In another letter he gives an account of a trip that he and Traveller had taken across the river into Albemarle County: "Near Cartersville, August 21, 1865. "My Dear Bertus: I received only a few days ago your letter of the 12th.
All here send their best love to you, and I pray that every happiness may attend you. "Your devoted father, "R. E. Lee. "Robert E. Lee." "Bertus" was a contraction of Robertus, my father's pet name for me as a child. My afflictions were "poison-oak," chills, and fever. The letter to my brother Fitzhugh, here referred to, I also give: "Near Cartersville, Cumberland County, Virginia, July 29, 1865.
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