From Whistler to George Washington Custis Lee
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
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content: James McNeill Whistler collection
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content: James McNeill Whistler collection / Series 1: James McNeill Whistler Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1879
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 9
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: (draft of a letter recommending the sculptor Joseph Boehm for the commission of an equestrian statue of Lee's father Robert E. Lee. Whistler and G. W. Custis Lee had been cadets at West Point when Robert E. Lee had been the Academy's superintendent. Letter closes with "Let me recall myself to your recollection as an old West Point comrade who has never forgotten the high opinion all held of yourself and the veneration we had of your Father.")