Letters / Correspondence

James Monroe & Richard Henry Lee

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Letters table
No. Sender Recipient Preview Date, oldest first
1 James Monroe Richard Henry Lee I am particularly happy to hear by your brother, that you have almost recovered from the indisposition, with which you have been lately afflicted: an event I must consider fortunate to the state... Dec. 16, 1783
2 Richard Henry Lee James Monroe I have duly received the letter that you were pleased to favor me with on the 16th. of december last, and I am very sensible of your kind sentiments respecting my health. I am indeed restored... Jan. 5, 1784
3 James Monroe Richard Henry Lee Your favor of the 5 ulto.2did not reach me till a few days since from the difficulty the severity of the season hath created in passage of the rivers. I am particularly happy to receive it as it... Feb. 1784
4 Richard Henry Lee James Monroe I have received the letter that you did me the honor to write to me from Pittsburg, and I am much pleased to find by it that the Indian nations, as nations, are not indisposed to us - I think it... Jan. 7, 1785
5 Richard Henry Lee James Monroe I have received the letter that you did me the honor to write to me from Pittsburg,1 and I am much pleased to find by it that the Indian nations, as nations, are not indisposed to us. I think it... Jan. 7, 1785
6 James Monroe Richard Henry Lee By a letter from the honorable the Agents on the part of Massachusets and Newyork my appointment as a judge to sit on the fœderal Court for deciding the Controversy between those states has been... Mar. 20, 1785
7 James Monroe Richard Henry Lee I have no excuse for having been so indifferent a correspondent except that I had nothing to communicate to you & I knew that of this you were apprisd by yr. brother & Colo. Lee.1 Lately... May 24, 1786
8 Richard Henry Lee James Monroe An unforeseen interruption deprives me of the happiness of waiting (as I intended) on Mrs. Monroe and yourself, that I might take your commands to New York, for which place I am now on my way. My... Jan. 18, 1787
9 Richard Henry Lee James Monroe I was yesterday honored with your polite and obliging letter of december the 30th last past, for which I pray you to accept my best thanks, as well as for your kind attention to my papers. I fear... Jan. 5, 1791
10 Richard Henry Lee, James Monroe Henry Lee We were duly honored, two days ago, with your Excellency’s letter of the 9th instant, and its enclosures.That the extra pay, which you have so properly contended for, ought to be reembursed, seems... Jan. 21, 1792
11 Richard Henry Lee, James Monroe Henry Lee We have been duly honored with your Excellency’s dispatches covering resolves of the Legislature respecting certain military claims of Land, and others for services and supplies not yet... Feb. 4, 1792
12 Richard Henry Lee James Monroe I am authorized and requested, by the Board of Managers of the Loudon Colonization Society of Loudon,2 to ask of you, your consent, to be elected, President of it; and to invite your attendance, if... Aug. 30, 1825