Scope and Contents A letter, dated June 13, 1838, from James Lee in Williamsburg, Virginia to Emeline Teagle in Norfolk, Virginia. Lee begins with concern for Teagle’s health: “To see those cheeks, which, but a few months ago, were decorated with the hue and loveliness of the rose, highlighted and informed by an innocent and playful vivacity, now pale and wan, and shaded with melancholy, awakens all the powerful energies of sympathy, and causes the tears of pity and sorrow, to fall afresh from my grief-dimmed...