Administrative Information
Provenance
The Custis-Lee Family Papers were assembled from sixteen separate collections that had been acquired by the Library from various sources, circa 1906-1968. Additions were received in 1985, 1990, 1991, and 2015.
Processing History
The papers of the Custis-Lee Family were arranged and described into a single collection in 1984. The collection was assembled from sixteen separate collections that had been acquired by the Library through more than eighty separate purchases and gifts. The material that now comprises the Custis-Lee Family Papers originally included two collections of papers of Charles Lee and separately titled collections of papers of Anne R. McCarty Lee, Arthur Lee, Mrs. H. I. Lee, Henry Lee, Ludwell Lee, Mary Custis Lee, Mary Anne Randolph Custis Lee, Richard Bland Lee, Richard Henry Lee, Robert E. Lee, Thomas Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, William and Hanna Philippa Ludwell Lee, and the Custis family. The collection was expanded and revised in 2000. The finding aid was revised in 2007. Additional material was processed by Andrea J. Briggs in 2019, and the finding aid was updated to reflect the addition.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Custis-Lee Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.