Correspondence

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Letters table
No.	Sender	Recipient	Preview	Date, oldest first
1	Richard Henry Lee	John Dickinson	As a friend to the just and proper rights of human nature, but particularly as an American, I acknowledge great obligation to you, for the wise and well-timed care, you have taken of our common...	Jul. 25, 1768
2	Richard Henry Lee	John Dickinson	That I might not be troublesome is the only reason that has hitherto prevented me from answering your agreeable favour of the 10th of August. It is greatly to be lamented that any consideration,...	Nov. 26, 1768
3	Richard Henry Lee	Samuel Adams, John Dickinson	I should not have been silent so long if any important consideration had made writing necessary. On this quarter, much alarm has been create<d> by a new court of criminal jurisdiction, it is...	Apr. 1773
4	John Dickinson	Arthur Lee	Yesterday the Congress broke up. You will immediately know their proceedings from Publications.Colonists have now taken such Ground, that Great Britain must relax, or inevitably involve herself in...	Oct. 27, 1774
5	Richard Henry Lee	John Dickinson	Various unexpected prorogations of our Assembly having prevented this Colony from taking up the consideration of the proceedings of the Continental Congress until the 20th of last month, I have now...	Apr. 7, 1775
6	John Dickinson	Arthur Lee	"The 'immedicabile Vulnus' is at length struck. The Rescript to our Petition is written in Blood. The impious War of Tyranny against Innocence has commenc’d in the Neighbourhood of...	Apr. 29, 1775
7	John Dickinson	Arthur Lee	Before this comes to Hand, You will have receiv’d, I presume, the Petition to the King. You will perhaps at first be surpriz’d, that We make no Claim, and mention no Right. But I hope [on]...	Jul. 1775
8	John Dickinson	Arthur Lee	The enclos’d will convince You how Affairs stand in America.1I am Sir, your Affectionate friend.(John Dickinson)	Jul. 7, 1775