Francis D. Lee papers
Consisting of two letters, 11 January 1861 (Fort Moultrie, S.C), to Capt. Walter Gwynn, [chief of the South Carolina Engineer Bureau during the Civil War], discussing his appointment as assistant engineer by Gov. F.W. Pickens and stating the impossibility of his continuing in office without "holding some rank commensurate with those responsibilities"; and letter, 6 December 1874 (St. Louis, Missouri), to Confederate veteran, General P.G.T. Beauregard, offering him an investment, discussing the purchase of eight monitors at New Orleans from the United States government by Messrs. Shickle, Harrison & Co. [Iron Works], and mentioning possible resale of the vessels to a foreign government on a commission to be shared by Beauregard and himself
Manuscript, English, 1861