Elizabeth Blair Lee (June 20, 1818 – September 13, 1906)[2] was an American woman who lived through the American Civil War and wrote hundreds of letters[3] describing the events of the times to her husband, Samuel Phillips Lee.

Elizabeth and her mother were friends of President Andrew Jackson's niece, Emily Donelson,[6] who served as First Lady for her uncle, whose wife had died.

Her letters to her husband describe wartime life in her homes of Washington, D.C. and Silver Spring, Maryland.

[10] Lee received a townhouse next to Blair House in Washington, D.C. from her father.

[1] Elizabeth was the mother of one child, Blair Lee, a state senator from Maryland.

[1] Lee had to stop working in the late 1890s, having lost her sight and due to age.