Lee And Jackson

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN – Sir: Two Baltimore wills have specified that the money must be spent in a certain way to build two monuments to Robert E. Lee, though one of the wills requires that Jackson must be included in the picture..

The idea that Lee and Jackson can be molded into a single bronze group is impossible from every point of view. That bizarre painting which so many Southerners call “The Parting of Lee and Jackson at Chancellorsville” is not true life. Jackson was as different in personality from Lee as a man could be. Jackson was not the Southern gentleman type at all. The only solution for the problem of the two wills is to divide the money into two parts to build separate figures of the great English gentleman, Robert Lee, and the great military genius, Stonewall Jackson.

EDMOND FONTAINE.

Ruxton, Mid., Nov. 25, 1934.