Crossword-Solution: CUSTIS 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Custis, at Arlington: “West Point, February 25, 1853 “My Precious Annie: I take advantage of your gracious permission to write to you, and there is no telling how far my feelings might carry men were I not limited by the conveyance furnished by the Mim’s [His pet name for my mother] letter, which lies before me, and which must, the Mim says so, go in this morning’s mail.

Mildness and forbearance will strengthen their affection for you, while it will maintain your control over them.” In a letter to one of his sons he writes as follows: “I cannot go to bed, my dear son, without writing you a few lines, to thank you for your letter, which gave me great pleasure....You and Custis must take great care of your kind mother and dear sisters when your father is dead.

Among the cadets at this time were my eldest brother, Custis, who graduated first in his class in 1854, and my father’s nephew, Fitz.

Should Custis arrive during my absence, I will leave word for him to take my room at the Spotswood till my return.

Custis, my grandfather, had made him executor of his will, wherein it was directed that all the slaves belonging to the estate should be set free after the expiration of so many years.