I l'>i i wi, : .\i roGF \i'M Letter oi U. S. Grant. 1 89 



Some time before Mr. William Metcalf's death he informed hi 

 of his intention to presenl the letter to the Carnegie Museum, and it 

 is in pursuance of this expressed purpose of his honored father thai 

 Mr. William Metcalf, Jr., has transferred to the Museum the custody 

 ol this most interesting document. 



At the surest ion of Mr. Douglas Stewart the writer of these lines 

 has had a plate prepared (Plate XIII) representing the life-mask of 

 General Robert E. Lee, made by Clark Mills, the sculptor, subsequent 

 to the civil war, and signed by him. This mask was some lime ago 

 very generously presented to the Museum by Mr. Theodore A. Mills, 

 the only surviving son of Mr. ('lark Mills. Mr. Theodore A. Mills 

 has long keen a member of the staff of this Museum. This is one of 

 a number of life masks, inherited by Mr. Mills from his father, which 

 he has kindly bestowed upon the Museum. There is a propriety 

 in publishing a picture of this mask at the same time that a reproduc- 

 tion i- given of the letter of General Grant. 



