Letters / Correspondence

Richard Henry Lee & Thomas Lee Shippen

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1 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen I have received your kind letter of the 28th. ulto. with the materials for breeches, all in good order, and I return you & the Council my very grateful acknowledgements - But how has it... Jan. 3, 1784
2 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen I replied to your kind letter conveying the materials for the breeches very soon after I received it - Since that I have not had the pleasure of hearing from you. The affairs of this world are... Jan. 13, 1784
3 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen I wrote to you very fully by yesterdays post in answer to your favor of the 17th., and I beg your attention to that letter. By the return of Colo. Mercer you may, perhaps, be enabled to give me... Jan. 22, 1784
4 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen I am very greatly obliged to you for your favor of the 24th instant and for your care of the horses - I hope they will arrive safe and in good order. If Mr. Harrison is not disappointed, he will... Jan. 29, 1784
5 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen I thank you for your care and punctuality in sending my Snuff, which I received in good order this morning.I also wish that you were acquainted with Mr. Hardy, because from similar possessions, I... Nov. 1784
6 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen This mornings post put into my possession your favor of the 17th. instant, and I thank you for it with great sincerity. I am very happy to hear that Mr. Reed is in your delegation, and I should... Nov. 19, 1784
7 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen This mornings post put into my possession your favor of the 17th instant, and I thank you for it with great sincerity. I am very happy to hear that Mr. Reed is in your delegation,2 and I should... Nov. 19, 1784
8 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen Your very obliging attention to my affairs deserves, as it certainly receives, my best thanks. The horses, I find are in a good way of getting back to Virginia, and I best like the Mode of their... Nov. 24, 1784
9 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen Your very kind congratulations on my appointment have, as they deserve, my cordial thanks; and it is the more grateful to me, since I find that my success operates on your mind as an incentive to... Dec. 15, 1784
10 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen I am very thankful for your attention to my clothes which arrived safe yesterday. Having not yet tried them on, I cannot say how they may fit - I observe that the price is much higher than you... 1785
11 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen Both Mr. Hadfield & Mr. Burnley have been with me, tho not so often as I wished them to be - however, I suppose that they are satisfied with my attention to them. You will no doubt be surprised... Jan. 4, 1785
12 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen I hope my dear Cousin has returned to Phila. brim full of health and Law - But say, is it law, or is it the study of law alone, that is inconsistent with the duties of friendship? There must be... Jan. 4, 1785
13 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen The Saturday sennight after I left you brought me safe to this place where I have the happiness to find all well - Our felicity would be complete indeed if our Philadelphia friends made part of our... Jan. 4, 1785
14 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen Explains to his nephew why payment for his "Sword Cutler" has been delayed, provides direction for the shipment of his chaise or "Chair" from Philadelphia to New York by water,... Jan. 4, 1785
15 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen I hope my dear Cousin has returned to Phila. brim full of health and Law. But say, is it law, or is it the study of law alone, that is inconsistent with the duties of friendship? There must be... Jan. 4, 1785
16 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen The Bread Basket, the plate warmer, the Boat, and the Box have all Safely arrived. By the coming of the two former I have escaped a scouring, and your character is established for polite attention... Jan. 12, 1785
17 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen How has it happened that My dear Cousin hath not yet informed me how he and his companion the good Doctor escaped the perils of that dreadful frost that enveloped all nature when they left Trenton.... Jan. 17, 1785
18 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen Your favor of the 15th. instant I recd. this day, and I delivered the enclosed Almanac to Mr. Hardy who returns you his thanks. Coll Livingston delivered me your letter immediately on his arrival... Jan. 17, 1785
19 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen Thanks his nephew for clothing that Shippen's tailor had made for him,1 and complains of some loss in the sale of his horses. "I have not yet got into my House,2 but I have hired a very... Jan. 20, 1785
20 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen By favor of Mr. Prager our common friend, I send you eleven guineas and a French crown, which will pay Mr. de Barthold and the ballance of my horses, and leave a few shillings for the [S]ocks - At... Jan. 22, 1785
21 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen I thank you much for your letter of the 20th. instant, which I received this day - Mr. Wilson did not deliver me your letter himself, but it did come to my hands altho’ I knew not who brought it,... Jan. 22, 1785
22 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen Acknowledges Shippen's letter of the 15th, received this day. "I delivered the enclosed Almanac to Mr. Hardy who returns you his thanks. Colo. Livingston delivered me your letter... Feb. 17, 1785
23 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen I have made such effectual inquiry after my dear Cousins stock buckle, that I have found it and safely deliverd it to my brother A. Lee. The world has assigned to you politeness equal to the good... Mar. 3, 1785
24 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen Your favor of June the 11th. has been just now put into my hands, and had it come sooner would have renderd unnecessary some parts of my letter to you of yesterday, which, with this will be... Jun. 13, 1785
25 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen Your favor of June the 11th has been just now put into my hands, and had it come sooner would have renderd unnecessary some parts of my letter to you of yesterday,1 which, with this will be... Jun. 13, 1785
26 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen If you should not have shipped my Chair for this place before you receive this letter I beg you not to remove it from Philadelphia until you hear further from me - My former illness has returned... Jun. 20, 1785
27 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen If you should not have shipped my Chair for this place before you receive this letter I beg you not to remove it from Philadelphia until you hear further from me. My former illness has returned... Jun. 20, 1785
28 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen When I wrote you last monday, I had been under so severe an affliction by the Gouty matter attacking my Bowels for some days, that I was quickly reduced very low - So that if a change had not taken... Jun. 22, 1785
29 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen By your favor of the 17th. instant I find that you have mistaken my request concerning the Dutch Fan - It is not a new Fan that I want, but only new Skreens for the old one, according to the... Oct. 1785
30 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen Since I parted with you and my other dear friends in Philadelphia in the fall of 1785 I have been agreeably employed in family cares and domestic concerns - This pleasant life, with much attention... Apr. 17, 1787
31 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen Having recover'd my health much better than I ever expected to have done, I have again taken my Seat in Congress. I arrived in this City a fortnight ago, having stayed a week in Philadela.... Jul. 22, 1787
32 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen Your letter of the 28 of May found me in grief, it having arrived about two hours after the death of our much valued friend Colo. Bland, who departed this life this forenoon after a painful illness... Jan. 1, 1790
33 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen I found on my arrival here how impossible it is for you to resist the most powerful attraction with which you are drawn to Chestnut Street - for I think that nothing short of that could have... Apr. 26, 1790
34 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen I have had a most dangerous attack of the Influenza in my Lungs & Head which has nearly destroyed me - I am much recovered, begin to ride out, but yet very unwell - However I must write to... May 8, 1790
35 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen I must begin by assuring you that I am yet much too unwell to write with any ease to myself - but having this day received your favor of the 4th Inst. I conceive myself bound to make an apology for... May 15, 1790
36 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen This days post brought me your favor of the 14th. instant with the protest enclosed, for which I must not delay to thank you, altho I assure you that in my present state of weakness it is very... May 18, 1790
37 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen I am very thankful to my dear Nephew for his favor of the 20th. instant. The enclosed shall be sent by tomorrows post to Ludwell. I went yester-Evening to the Presidents and was introduced to his... May 23, 1790
38 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen I am this moment favored with yours of the 3d. instant for which I thank you - The business of the Seat remains much as when I wrote you last - You friends did on Wednesday the 3d. oppose the... Jun. 5, 1790
39 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen I have received your letter of the 10th with a letter enclosed for Count Andreani - I have been twice to search for him in vain - Being as you state him an Agreable, he is so sought after that... Jun. 13, 1790
40 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen I find by your last that you had not received my last, when yours was written - In mine I had given you a precise statement of the business relative to the Seat of Government - It is an affair in... Jun. 17, 1790
41 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen I am not unwilling to be indebted to you because I am sure of having a merciful Creditor - And so I acknowledge myself your debtor for two letters, that which covered Ellwoods receipt, and your... Jun. 29, 1790
42 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen Just going to bed I have but a moment to inform you that this day in Senate by a Majority of 16 to 10 we ordered to the third reading a Bill for carrying Congress to Philadelphia after this... Jun. 30, 1790
43 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen I promised my friend Mr. Stark, who by the time this reaches you will be in Phila., to inform him thro you how the Bill went in the Senate respecting the future Seats of the general government - I... Jul. 1, 1790
44 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen The debates have ended this day with rejecting every proposition of amendment to our bill, which augurs well for its final passage - Tomorrow, or the next day, will probably put a period to this... Jul. 1790
45 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen Your letter of the 4th. I received this day, and whatever may be the opinion of others with respect to me, I am happy to find that yours, which I much value, states me as I realy am - Not suffering... Jul. 6, 1790
46 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen Last evening I informed you how the business of Residence went on - this day has been passed in practising the same monœuvres that we were entertained with in Senate - Baltimore has been rejected... Jul. 7, 1790
47 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen The letter that you had the goodness to write to me on the 11th. instant. I received last evening - We all here join in thanking you for the happiness created among us by your information of the... Jan. 21, 1791
48 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen Your favor of March 17, has not been answered so soon as it would otherwise have been, because it was rendered partly unnecessary by the letter I had written to you just before the receipt of it,... Apr. 15, 1793
49 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen May be perfectly sure that there must have been very satisfactory reason for his letter by my Son, Augt 20 remaining so long unanswered. I had no doubt but that you had left Philadelphia to avoid... Dec. 1793
50 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen Such is the weak state of my health, & so greatly does writing disturb me, that I am compelled to employ an Amanuensis for the purpose of acknowledging the receipt of your Letter of January the... Jan. 12, 1794