Letters / Correspondence

Henry Lee, IV

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1 Henry Lee, IV John B. Nicolson It is most true I have been very negligent in not answering your letters – but I must plead as an excuse – my – almost detestation of writing – (save when congratulating our friend Paulding:) You... Apr. 3, 1816
2 Henry Lee, IV Ann Hill Carter Lee I send you copies of 2 letters recd. some time ago in relation to the last illness of my lamented fatherI condole with you immensly in the tender & mournful reflections their funeral will... Jun. 11, 1818
3 Henry Lee, IV Robert Carter I am not able to make a suitable apology, for the liberty I take of mentioning to you, that I have heard it suggested you have several good hounds to give away, & of asking you to give me 3 or... Feb. 8, 1821
4 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV I have just returned from my friends in Matthews & Gloucester & regret that so long an interval has elapsed without affording me a suitable opportunity of writing to you, to assure you how... Aug. 21, 1821
5 Henry Lee, IV Robert Mayo I am sorry I have nothing to say on the subject apparently of primary interest to you. To the advice that you wait until December & then act for yourself nothing beneficial can be added, and... Sep. 4, 1821
6 Henry Lee, IV Robert Mayo I forgot to mention how much obliged to you I shall feel for the books you offer me, & that they will reach me if sent to the Messrs. R. & J. Mandeville of Alexa. The ladies were pleased... Sep. 11, 1821
7 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV Being absent from Richmd for some time passed, on my return I found both your letters by post in my diary. You can scarcely imagine with what delight these visible tokens of your friendly wishes in... Sep. 18, 1821
8 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV My extreme impatience to hear from you really torments me. I fear you have not recd my last in consequence of my directing it to Mattox Bridge, whence I supposed you wd more readily get it, as... Oct. 7, 1821
9 Henry Lee, IV Robert Mayo I can hardly describe the emotions with which the kindness of your letter affects me. After compassing near the 3rd of a century – for the greater part of which I roved gaily through a galaxy of... Oct. 9, 1821
10 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV Your favor of the 9th inst: is recd & the perusal of it affects me with peculiar interest. I assure you it wd give me infinite pleasure to afford every facility in my power to raise the sum you... Oct. 16, 1821
11 Henry Lee, IV Robert Mayo I hasten to inform you that the person you are desirous to see1 is expected every day to be in this county & that the period of which you are anxious to receive the date is the 29th of Novr... Oct. 29, 1821
12 Henry Lee, IV Robert Mayo From the first I believe I intimated to you that the sensibilities of the particular & protecting friends of the young lady, were probably in a state so unsettled and alarmed that a proposition... Nov. 6, 1821
13 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV I returned to town last evening from a short visit to the country, and this evening recd your favor of the 29th Ulto. via Fredericksburg. I have placed the enclosed note in the hands of Mr. Page.... Nov. 7, 1821
14 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV You percieve by the enclosed that the apprehensions communicated by Mr. Page in my last have been confirmed. I assure you that the warmest friend cd not reject it more than I do; and cd any... Nov. 11, 1821
15 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV It is possible this may come to hand by the same mail with one I wrote you on the 10th Inst:. Since that date, I have concluded, upon mature deliberation that it wd be more disreputable to abandon... Nov. 13, 1821
16 Henry Lee, IV Robert Mayo That you should be shocked at the tissue of error and infatuation described in my last letter is not surprising. Even I who have been exposed to such tempests of the soul, shuddered with unusual... Nov. 20, 1821
17 Henry Lee, IV Robert Mayo Mrs. R. refused to receive your letter and in terms so unfavorable as to inflict pain upon the innocent and injured person who offered it. Hoping that you may come over, I retain it here to await... Nov. 27, 1821
18 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV I am not insensible of the superior merit requisite to an ingenuous persevering & successful prosecution of a great enterprise, over that of merely conceiving the original design. This only... Nov. 27, 1821
19 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV It is with extreme pain I have endured the disappointment of intelligence from you for the last two weeks. But I feel not confident that your not writing is attributable to yr expecting me over to... Dec. 24, 1821
20 Henry Lee, IV Robert Mayo Your letter of the 27th ultimo reached me last monday & those of the 4th. & 24th. inst. were recd: by the same mail, on thursday last. Pity they had not all been sent by the notorious &... Jan. 1, 1822
21 Henry Lee, IV Robert Mayo By reasons of some casualty in its passage I did not recieve your letter of the 8th before the 24th: inst: Where a man is determined not to fail, it is hard to deny that he will succeed. And unless... 1822
22 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV I snatch a brief moment from the pressure of business to impart to you a hint of “what reinforcement we may gain from hope” which I assure you is a resource with me hitherto inexhaustible & has... Jan. 8, 1822
23 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV The critical period of three weeks since my last letter to Mrs. Rose has now elapsed, during hopes & fears have alternated their influence upon my mind. I have supposed that if Mrs. R’s... Jan. 29, 1822
24 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV My business having brought me as far as this Emporium of American commerce, before I cd. complete my arrangements respecting my publications, (which are now accomplished to my satisfaction) the... Mar. 15, 1822
25 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV It is probable I shall be at Montrose about the time that this will come to hand. Prudence or policy however may dictate a forbearance to call at Stratford. In that case I shall leave the bundle of... Mar. 31, 1822
26 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV I hope Mrs. Lee has received the music I left for her at Montrose with my note & the essay on M. Luther’s merits in Psalmody. She will excuse my neglect to send the note. I was fearful of... Apr. 9, 1822
27 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV I have the pleasure to acknowlege the receipt of yrs. of the 21st inst: & regret you had not leisure to say what you had heard respecting my short visit at Montrose. I arrived there about one... Apr. 30, 1822
28 Henry Lee, IV Richard T. Brown I have been here more than a month and have as yet neither seen nor heard of my books baggage &c, nor have I recd a line from you since I left Westmoreland. I wrote to you from Wheeling &... Jul. 17, 1827
29 Henry Lee, IV Robert T. Brown At the invitation of Genl. Jackson I am about to accompany him to N. Orleans I am therefore under the necessity of requesting yiu to forward Jnotn Mclean immediately, 150 dollars, in order to... Dec. 24, 1827
30 Henry Lee, IV Charles Carter Lee Your letter of the 20th and 30th April reached me together about 3 days ago, enclosing the one a credit on Haune for 1530 francs, and the other a duplicate of the meme. Being so far from Paris I... Jun. 15, 1831
31 Henry Lee, IV Richard T. Brown I owe you many thanks, my dear Sir, for your letter of the 9th June; In counting on your friendship, I was not wrong: absence, calumny, and misfortune that made some persecute and others desert me,... Aug. 24, 1833
32 Henry Lee, IV Anne Robinson McCarty Lee I have been seized with the most violent & painful influenza & sore throat that I ever had. The latter made last night the most painful I ever experienced. I can scarcely breathe or... 1837