 | Washington and Lee University - 1911 - 854 pages
...country, I will yield to your judgment and accept it. Otherwise I must most respectfully decline the omce. Begging you to express to the Trustees of the College...for the kind manner in which you have communicated its decision, I am, gentlemen, with great respect, Your most obedient servant, RE LEE. Messrs. John... | |
 | Armistead Lindsay Long, Marcus Joseph Wright - 1886 - 760 pages
...position tendered to me by the Board will be advantageous to the college and country, I will yield to your judgment and accept it, otherwise I must most" respectfully...with great respect, " Your most obedient servant, "RE LEE. "Messrs. JOHN W. BROCKENBROUGH, Rector; S. McD. REID, •> ALFRED LEYBITRN, HORATIO THOMPSON,... | |
 | Washington and Lee University - 1888 - 260 pages
...position tendered to me by the Board will be advantageous to the College and country, I will yield to your judgment and accept it ; otherwise I must most respectfully...with great respect, " Your most obedient servant, " BE LEE. " Messrs. JOHN W. BROCKENBROUGH, Rector, S. McD. REID, ALFRED LEYBURN, HORATIO THOMPSON,... | |
 | Louise Manly - 1895 - 564 pages
...I will yield to your judgment and accept it ; otherwise I must most respectfully decline the offer. Begging you to express to the Trustees of the college...for the kind manner in which you have communicated its decision, I am, gentlemen, your most obedient servant, RE LEE. JEFFERSON DAVIS. 1808—1889. JEFFERSON... | |
 | Louise Manly - 1895 - 560 pages
...I will yield to your judgment and accept it ; otherwise I must most respectfully decline the offer. Begging you to express to the Trustees of the college...for the kind manner in which you have communicated its decision, I am, gentlemen, your most obedient servant, RE LEE. JEFFERSON DAVIS. 18o8—1889. JEFFERSON... | |
 | Henry Alexander White - 1897 - 648 pages
...position tendered me by the Board will be advantageous to the College and country, I will yield to your judgment and accept it. Otherwise I must most respectfully...Trustees of the College my heartfelt gratitude for the honour conferred upon me, and requesting you to accept my cordial thanks for the kind manner in which... | |
 | John William Jones - 1906 - 502 pages
...I will yield to your judgment and accept it. Otherwise I must most respectfully decline the offer. Begging you to express to the Trustees of the College...for the kind manner in which you have communicated the decision, I am, gentlemen, with great respect, Your most obedient servant, RE LEE. "MESSRS. JOHN... | |
 | John Temple Graves, Clark Howell, Walter Williams - 1909 - 328 pages
...position tendered to me by the board will be advantageous to the college and country, I will yield to your judgment and accept it; otherwise, I must most respectfully...gentlemen, with great respect, your most obedient servant, RE LEE. SAM HOUSTON was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, near Lexington, March 2, 1793. Was of... | |
 | 1909 - 516 pages
...position tendered to me by the board will be advantageous to the college and country, I will yield to your judgment and accept it; otherwise I must most respectfully...trustees of the college my heartfelt gratitude for the honour conferred upon me, and requesting you to accept my cordial thanks for the kind manner in which... | |
 | Edwin Mims - 1910 - 460 pages
...office. Begging you to express to the trustees of the college my heartfelt gratitude for the honour conferred upon me, and requesting you to accept my...gentlemen with great respect, your most obedient servant, RE LEE. From Recollection* and Letters of General Lee, by his son. By permission ol Doubleday, Page... | |
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Should you, however, take a different view, and think that my services in the position tendered me by the Board will be advantageous to the College and country, I will yield to your judgment and accept it. Otherwise I must most respectfully decline the... 
