Letters / Correspondence

Annette Carter

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Letters table
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1 Richard Henry Lee Annette Carter By the Governor s Speech, which you have inclosed, you may perceive, that considerable business was marked out for us. But our glorious resolution of yesterday, to be defended by Militia, to have... Jan. 14, 1764
2 Richard Henry Lee Annette Carter By Captain Talman, I was favoured with your obliging letter of April last, before the receipt of which, I had been informed of the fatal blow given to American liberty, by the ever to be detested... Jul. 4, 1765
3 Richard Henry Lee Annette Carter You will receive with this a letter for Mr. Grayson open for your inspection. If on conversation with him you find him disengaged, seal and deliver it. My brother Thomas and myself conversing on... Dec. 18, 1772
4 Richard Henry Lee Annette Carter I well know your attachment to men of worth, and I am sure it will not be esteemed the less because it comes recommended by me. I therefore, with pleasure introduce to your acquaintance and... May 26, 1777
5 Richard Henry Lee Annette Carter I am exceedingly obliged to you for your favor of the 28 Ulto., by the contents of which I have reason to think you have written me a letter that has never come to hand - Indeed I strongly suspect... Jan. 15, 1778
6 Richard Henry Lee Annette Carter I am to entreat your pardon for not having sent you the inclosed letter before now, and I think I shall obtain my request when you know the reasons that have caused the detention. This letter... Jan. 29, 1778
7 Richard Henry Lee Annette Carter I am favored by Mr Monroe with yours of yesterday and a letter from Colo. Parker. My brother Dr. Lee is at present in Prince William County so that he is deprived of an opportunity of writing by... Oct. 5, 1781
8 Richard Henry Lee Annette Carter The public papers will have informed you of my having left New York, and the cause - The benefit that I received from the use of the Chalybeate waters in the vicinity of Philadelphia has been very... Jan. 10, 1785
9 Richard Henry Lee Annette Carter I thank you for the information that thro my brother I have received from you of the health of my family - but my satisfaction was much allayed by the account of your fathers illness. I hope... Aug. 22, 1787
10 Richard Henry Lee Annette Carter Your favour of December 3d, in the last year, reached me the last of January following, and it should have been answered with my thanks long since, if the uncommon badness of the winter, stopping... Apr. 28, 1788
11 Robert E. Lee Annette Carter I am delighted my beautiful Annette at the prospect of seeing you soon, and also that you will accompany us to the wedding. I have been trying all the winter to get to Goodwood but since December... Mar. 19, 1859
12 Robert E. Lee Annette Carter I was too much disappointed my beautiful Annette not to see you today. I had hoped certainly to have done so, and looked for you anxiously all day yesterday. When are you coming up and when shall I... Jun. 2, 1859
13 Robert E. Lee Annette Carter I am so disappointed you did not come up with your father. There was a nice seat for you in the buggy and we should have enjoyed your company much more than the wedding party tonight. I shall not... Jun. 14, 1859
14 Robert E. Lee Annette Carter I shall want so much to see you tonight my beautiful Annette, for I know how sweet you will look, and of all those that will see you, none will appreciate the happiness as much as I would. I have... Nov. 8, 1859
15 Robert E. Lee Annette Carter The pain of leaving home is much enhanced by my inability to bid adieu to you, Ella and your father. I wished to go down and see you, but heard of your father and Ella being called to Philadelphia... Feb. 10, 1860
16 Robert E. Lee Annette Carter The reception of your letter of the 18th ultimate from Cedar Grove my sweet Annette has given me great pleasure. It was very kind of you and Ada to think of me. You must have felt that I was... Jan. 16, 1861
17 Robert E. Lee Annette Carter I am delighted at the reception of your letter of the 11th. It recalls so many pleasant thoughts, that I am at a loss which first to express. I have been so long anxious to hear of you all at... May 18, 1866
18 Robert E. Lee Annette Carter I was delighted my dear Annette, by the reception of your letter today, to find there was some prospect of our seeing you next month. You will not find the journey so hard. You can reach the... Aug. 30, 1866
19 Robert E. Lee Annette Carter I have just received your letter of the 27th. You know the pleasure it has given me. Though I have been regretting your absence ever since you left, I am glad that you reached home comfortably and... Nov. 1, 1867
20 Robert E. Lee Annette Carter I write to you in great alarm. I have just heard of Mildred’s engagement, and see nothing between you and the same fate. I beg that you will come on here immediately that I may endeavor to protect... Mar. 28, 1868
21 Robert E. Lee Annette Carter Your letter of the 10th received this rimming my sweetest Annette, has given me the greatest pleasure. I can do nothing but think of you and wish to see you. You could not have supposed that a... Jul. 15, 1869
22 Robert E. Lee Annette Carter Your long silence was most agreeably broken by your letter of the 13th instant and I was delighted to find that you were alive and well and still in America. I could not find out until I received... Feb. 22, 1870
23 Robert E. Lee Annette Carter Your very kind letter of the 24th April has followed me from Savannah to this place and has been most gladly welcomed. It would give me great pleasure to continue my journey to Goodwood but I... May 20, 1870
24 Robert E. Lee Annette Carter I found on my arrival here you letter of the 5th May. My reply to your former, which I did not receive till my return to Virginia I hope you have received. See that I told you how glad we would be... Jun. 2, 1870
25 Robert E. Lee Annette Carter I was very sorry to part with you all, and must say in all truth that my regret has not in the least diminished since. But I believe the same would have been the case had I remained with you all... Jul. 19, 1870
26 Robert E. Lee Annette Carter I reached here the beginning of the week, found all well, and all regretted that you did not return with me. If I was to tell you that the whole of the regrets felt by the household together, did... Jul. 30, 1870
27 Robert E. Lee Annette Carter . . . for $15.00. He was a pretty bay, & was sufficiently broken to be rode. He had not however forgotten his wild habits. On returning to his native plains he became much excited, seemed to... -
28 Richard Henry Lee Annette Carter The slow but sure moving Gates has not yet sent us his glorious Inventory, but an Officer who saw Burgery with Gates gives the following list to a Gentleman who is arrived at Reading - -
29 Robert E. Lee Annette Carter . . . be accommodated at that celebrated watering place. Agnes will accompany her wherever she goes, as her malady is supposed to proceed from rheumatism, and it is hoped that what will relieve the... -