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This is the theory advanced by Mr. Montgomery Wright, of Washington, D. C. In a letter to the New York Sun, printed February 25, 1913, Mr. Wright shows, for the same reasons which are given in the Repudiation Letter, of December 20, 1864, and in the letter of General Custis Lee, October 23, 1910, that General Lee could not, in 1852, have written the first two sentences of The Duty Letter. But he adds: "General Lee's