Copybook of Mrs. Mary Lee Custis, of Arlington, Va. containing popular 19th century poems [manuscript] 19th century.
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Custis, Mary Lee Fitzhugh, 1788-1853
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Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis (April 22, 1788 – April 23, 1853) was the mother of Mary Anna Randolph Custis, the wife of Robert E. Lee. Early in the 1820s Custis helped form a coalition of women who hoped to eradicate slavery. In 1804, she married George Washington Parke Custis, grandson of Martha Custis Washington. The Custises lived at Arlington House....