. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. uly glad to see your handwriting is so long since I heard from you. I have been immersed forsome time in a mass of old letters and papers. How it carries meback to the past—the happy past! Now it seems to me with allI have left I feel so bereft. Nothing can ever supply the placeof our dear parents. None can ever love us so entirely, or bearwith all our faults and failures as they have done; especially is amothers love the purest and most disinterested; it can only besurpassed by that of our blessed Redeemer. Mr. Lee ha
. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. uly glad to see your handwriting is so long since I heard from you. I have been immersed forsome time in a mass of old letters and papers. How it carries meback to the past—the happy past! Now it seems to me with allI have left I feel so bereft. Nothing can ever supply the placeof our dear parents. None can ever love us so entirely, or bearwith all our faults and failures as they have done; especially is amothers love the purest and most disinterested; it can only besurpassed by that of our blessed Redeemer. Mr. Lee has gone tothe lower plantation,* and will return in a few days. He has beenkept very busy trying to reduce these very complicated affairs into * The White House. SOLDIER, CITIZEN AND CHRISTIAN PATRIOT. 325 some order. It is very unsatisfactory work, for the servants haveso long been accustomed to do little or nothing, that they cannotbe convinced of the necessity of exerting themselves to accomplishthe conditions of the will, which the sooner they do the sooner. THE MESS, RICHMOND, VA. will they be entitled to their freedom. What they will do then,unless a mighty change is wrought in them, I do not know ; atany rate we will be relieved from the care of them, which will bea mighty burden taken from our shoulders. 326 GENERAIv ROBERT EDWARD LEE, In another letter to the same young friend, Mrs. L,ee says : Mr. Lee is with me, but is so harassed with the cares and troubleshe has in settling this large estate with very inadequate means,that I do not have the comfort that his presence might otherwisehave afforded me. We are very busy, but I hope you will notdiscontinue your visits to Arlington. I see in the papers a won-derful account of a revival of religion in New York.^ We canonly pray it may produce a lasting effect, for truly it is muchneeded. When Mrs. Lee left Arlington she went to Cedar Grove,the plantation of a kinsman on the Potomac, where she remainedfor some time. In man
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