Letters / Correspondence

Landon Carter & Richard Henry Lee

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Letters table
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1 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
2 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
3 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
4 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
5 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
6 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
7 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
8 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
9 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
10 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
11 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
12 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
13 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
14 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
15 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
16 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
17 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
18 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
19 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
20 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
21 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