Author: Flood, Charles Bracelen,
Title: Lee the last years.
Description: Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1981). VG lg sz PB. Lee "on the day but one" when Lee returned to his rented house in Richmond, Matthew Brady asked Lee to pose for him. He told. Brady it was utterly impossible" with the eyes of the world upon me as they are today. But after a friend o Brady interceded, Lee changed his mind and let Brady photograph him. Later the last painting from life of Lee done by the colorful Swiss artist Frank Bucher asked Lee to dress in his Confederate uniform but he refused saying , "I am a soldier no longer" and allowed Bucher to paint him. A later photo shows a much aged Lee from the Bucher painting. Jotting on corner of back of front cover, some edge wear.

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