Letters / Correspondence

Francis Lightfoot Lee & Landon Carter

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Letters table
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1 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter I received your Letter with great pleasure tho contrary to your expectation it paid postage to the hated Post office. As the constitutional post now goes regularly, we may with a safe conscience... Oct. 21, 1775
2 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter I wrote to Col. Tayloe two or three days agoe, from whome I suppose you have had the news, and intended by Mr. Colston to answer your last letter; but an express from the Camp last night having... Nov. 20, 1775
3 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter Before you receive this, Mr. Colston will have given you all the news of this place when he left it, since which one of our little men of war, called the Lee, capt. Manly, has taken a Store ship,... Dec. 12, 1775
4 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter Mr. Dye having been hurried away a day or two sooner than he expected, prevented my writing to you by him. He will not probably be with you sooner than this, as Mr. Colston sets off early tomorrow... Jan. 9, 1776
5 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter Having very little to communicate except our unfortunate attempt upon Quebec; a particular Account of which I have given to our mutual friend Col. Tayloe; I shou’d not now Trouble you, but to... Jan. 22, 1776
6 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter I intended to have devoted yesterday to answer your kind Letters by last Monday’s post; but unexpected business intervened which prevented me, and this day I find my obligation increased by the... Feb. 12, 1776
7 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter Before this I suppose you have recd. a Copy of common sense which I sent you some time ago; if not, I now send a parcel to Col. Tayloe of whome you may have one.Our late King & his Parliament... Mar. 19, 1776
8 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter The assurances of friendship in your Letter of the 30 of March, give me very great pleasure. I hope it will always continue, as a compensation for the many disquietude unavoidable in this Life. Who... Apr. 9, 1776
9 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter I have received your very acceptable Letter of the 30 Apl. I wish it was in my power to make better return, but my situation here will not admit of it. Perhaps it wou’d be well if Congress was... May 21, 1776
10 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter I acknowledge myself greatly indebted to your goodness, for which, tho' I despair of ever making full returns, yet I shall endeavour to show my gratitude by such partial payments, as my time... Sep. 15, 1776
11 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter Tho I have wrote pretty fully to Col. Tayloe, upon the present state of our affairs & sent him the papers, which I know you will partake of; yet I cant help saying a word, to convince you, that... Jan. 14, 1777
12 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter I was well pleased to find by yours of the 21st Jan. that you were in good health & spirits; may you long continue so. You will no longer accuse the Congress of timidity, when you know it has... Feb. 28, 1777
13 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter Having given Col. Tayloe what little news is stiring here, which I know will be communicated to you; I have only to acknowlege the rect. of several of your favors, for which I am much obliged to... Apr. 15, 1777
14 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter I have lately received several of your favors, for which I feel myself much obliged, & should sooner have acknowleged it but that I waited to have the pleasure of sending you a treatise on... Jun. 8, 1777
15 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter I have the pleasure at last of sending you some directions for making sugar; which I hope will be usefull.You have my sincere thanks for your agreeable Letter by R.H.L. I am well pleased to find no... Aug. 1777
16 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter Mr. Jackson will deliver you a Letter which I wrote some time agoe, 1 by Mr. Crump, who was stoped at Elk by Mr. Howe. I hope it will arrive time enough for your sugar making business. I cou'd... Sep. 4, 1777