Letters / Correspondence

Landon Carter

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1 Richard Lee Landon Carter Dennis Son waits on you for I dont know what. but I advise you of three of yr people at his Quarter being ill; one he tells me is upon the recovery, but two Women that came down from you are very... Nov. 25, 1734
2 Richard Henry Lee Landon Carter I shall not fail to send your packet to Jonas Green by the first favorable opportunity. I have perused it, and arn well pleased with your manner of defending us, as well as with the justness of... Dec. 31, 1764
3 Richard Henry Lee Landon Carter Is it true that one of the best friends, as well as one of the most able of the community, intends to quit the service of his Country at this most important crisis; when every mental, every... Jan. 22, 1765
4 Richard Henry Lee Landon Carter I accidentally met with your favor the other day, and have now sent the book you were pleased to lend me in Town. ’Tis well written, and should be well studied in these times, when the true nature... Aug. 15, 1765
5 Richard Henry Lee Landon Carter As I was greatly surprised, and equally disturbed at Mr. Ritchies declaration at Richmond Court, so am I now pleased to hear from you, that he repents of that dangerous step. I make no doubt, but... Jan. 24, 1766
6 Richard Henry Lee Landon Carter Tired at length with vain expectation, I have determined to make that opportunity I have so long waited for, to answer your obliging favor of Nov'r last. I am not surprised that your good... Feb. 1766
7 Richard Henry Lee Landon Carter Ever since I left Mr. Parker I have been in the most unhappy condition Poor - Mrs. Lee and my two sons laboring under a severe Pleurisy and now so ill that I know not what may be the issue of this... Dec. 8, 1768
8 Richard Henry Lee Landon Carter It must be a very extraordinary cause that will prevent me from waiting on you Monday next - At present I resolve to give you the meeting at church, where I have no manner of doubt, but that we... Jan. 17, 1771
9 Richard Henry Lee Landon Carter I have met with the same difficulty in my attempts for the Patriotic store that you mention. All approve, but none have the money. For as yet, I have met with no one person hardy enough to condemn,... Apr. 1771
10 Richard Henry Lee Landon Carter The Bearer will deliver you two letters that were put into my hands by your Son just as I left Williamsburg. I suppose these letters will inform you when your Son proposes to return. The Assembly... Mar. 1772
11 Richard Henry Lee Landon Carter I am your debtor for two very obliging letters which I should have answered sooner if an oportunity had presented. I admit your criticism on the expression we convened about, and then objected to a... Mar. 7, 1772
12 Richard Henry Lee Landon Carter I am just now favored with yours covering a letter for Mr. Peele. For the following reason I have returned the letter to you. So far as I am able to judge, I think Mr. Peele has much merit in his... Oct. 1772
13 Richard Henry Lee Landon Carter I wish with all my heart you had found the Harlem oil as effecatious as Mr. Allen supposed, but when I heard the old Gentlemen recommending it in such strong terms, it occurred to me, that like... Jan. 20, 1774
14 Richard Henry Lee Landon Carter I am greatly obliged to you for the assistance I have received from Nassau. He has performed two operations from which relief is already discernible - But my dear Sir, I beg you will not be so hard... Feb. 6, 1774
15 Richard Henry Lee Landon Carter We had hear’d of the Lords flight before your letter came, and we apprehend it to be for fear of reprisal, as we suppose one part of the Ministerial plan has been already executed in Boston. by... Apr. 1775
16 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
17 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
18 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
19 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
20 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
21 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
22 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
23 Richard Henry Lee Landon Carter It hurts me exceedingly that you should attribute to declining friendship what realy arose from the necessity of my situation. After an absence of many months, I had obtained leave to pay a short... Apr. 1, 1776
24 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
25 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
26 Richard Henry Lee Landon Carter Since the establishment of our Westmoreland Rider, I conclude the papers come so regularly into your neighborhood from this City, as to render it the less necessary to repeat in letters what you... Jun. 1776
27 Richard Henry Lee Landon Carter I cannot omit so good an opportunity as Mr. Beale furnishes me with of thanking you for your favor whilst I was at Williamsburg which at that time I by no means had leisure to do. The experiments... Jul. 1776
28 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
29 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
30 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
31 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
32 Richard Henry Lee Landon Carter I have but a moment to return you my thanks for your friendly and obliging letter. It was impossible for me to avoid feeling the unmerited ill treatment that I had received, but I have now the... Jun. 1777
33 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
34 Richard Henry Lee Landon Carter I shall take care of your letter for my brother, and of the parcel for Dr. Shippen.It would give me pleasure to furnish you with better news than this post has brought us, however, it is what we... Jul. 1777
35 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
36 Richard Henry Lee Landon Carter As it is always with pleasure that I obey your commands, so it is perfectly agreable to me to make use of the opportunity offered by Mr. Butler of furnishing you with the present state of our... Aug. 19, 1777
37 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
38 Richard Henry Lee Landon Carter Your boy overtook me yesterday on my way to the General Muster where I was detained until after Sunset. This morning I take the boy with me to Court where I expect to receive letters from the North... Feb. 1778