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Rh should exhort their sons to follow when another day of judgment comes round! "Do you duty, like the old Puritan," exclaims the pseudo-parent in closing his letter, "You cannot do more."

The real General Lee, no doubt, is too busy to trouble himself with such silly inventions, and has no time to contradict them; but this is not the first pretended letter "picked up at Arlington House"; it may not be the last; and Virginian newspapers ought to be careful of his fame, even in the smallest matters, and not suffer a Yankee's parts of speech to be fathered upon him.

(The Richmond Times, Wednesday, December 19, 1900, p. 8.)

Editor of The Times:

,—I see that you have recently reproduced a letter which went the rounds of the papers during the "War between the States," and has been published in several books, purporting to be from Colonel R. E. Lee at Arlington, to his son Custis, at West Point.

I published in the University Monthly, New York, in March, 1872, the following article which, I think, shows conclusively that the letter is spurious:

"The famous letter purporting to be from General Lee, at Arlington, to his son Custis, at West Point, is unmistakably spurious. This letter, which is published in the November number of the University Monthly, has long passed current as giving the key-note of the life of the great chieftain.

"It has been very extensively copied, and appears in a number of books about the war. It seems a pity to spoil all that