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Richard Henry Lee

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451 Richard Henry Lee Henry Laurens A letter that I received from our friend Mr. Bee a fortnight past was the first notice that I had of the probability of your speedily sailing, and caused me to apprehend that you would have left... Jan. 2, 1780
452 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson I am much obliged to you for your favor of January the 2d. with its enclosures which came to hand two days ago, kept back I suppose by the post. The Bearer who is Under Sherif of our county, will... Jan. 7, 1780
453 Richard Henry Lee Henry Laurens We are still detained here, but I hope the Assembly will rise in four or five days - We have passed an Act to adopt the resolutions of congress on finance, of the 18 March last when a majority of... Jan. 10, 1780
454 Richard Henry Lee Samuel Adams It has given me great pleasure to hear that you are once more returned to Congress. That perseverance which can patiently encounter so many obstacles for the attainment of public good deserves... Jan. 10, 1780
455 Richard Henry Lee John Adams I should have paid my respects to you before now had I known where to have directed my letters, for at this time I have no other method than to inclose the present to our friend Mr Lovell at... Jan. 17, 1780
456 Richard Henry Lee Samuel Adams I send you the inclosed pamphlet, not to give you any information, or to remove any doubts that you can be supposed to have, or to fix in your mind a greater detestation of those wicked men, whose... Jan. 18, 1780
457 Richard Henry Lee Chilton I arrived here yesterday evening very much indisposed by a severe cold and fever. The two Packets that accompany this I received a day or two before I left Richmond and take this earliest occasion,... Jan. 18, 1780
458 Richard Henry Lee Jonathan Trumbull Altho I am fully satisfied that your wisdom and goodness were incapable of being imposed on by the Libel published at Philadelphia on the 5th of december 1778, yet you may not have imagined that it... Jan. 22, 1780
459 Richard Henry Lee Roger Sherman The very high sense that I entertain of your sound and virtuous patriotism will by no means suffer me to pass you by when I am distributing a pamphlet which I think it imports the friends of... Jan. 22, 1780
460 Richard Henry Lee Henry Laurens Since my last I have been honored with your favors of the 4th. and 13th. of May. Your kind solicitude for Mr. Parker does great honor to your philanthropy, and I have not neglected what you so... Jan. 29, 1780
461 Samuel Adams Richard Henry Lee I cannot begin this Letter but by intreating you to impute my past omission to any Cause you please excepting a Forgetfulness or willful Neglect. The making of Apologys is among Friends so formal a... Jan. 31, 1780
462 Theodorick Bland Richard Henry Lee Yours of the 26th I received last night with a Postscript informing me of Arnolds having bent his force towards your River.1 If his intentions are really what he has declared them, and he executes... Feb. 6, 1780
463 William Shippen, Sr. Richard Henry Lee I reced your Favor of the 19th Feby inclosing a Note for Tho Paine Clerk of our Assembly wch I delivered. We hear from Carolina that the Troops to the amount of 8000 are arrived & Landed, some... Feb. 29, 1780
464 Thomas McKean Richard Henry Lee Your esteemed favor of the 15th last month, with the extracts from your much injured brother’s letter to the President of Congress, and the copy of Doctor Berkenhout’s letter to yourself, inclosed,... Mar. 25, 1780
465 Richard Henry Lee Arthur Lee It being very uncertain whether this letter will reach Europe before you have quitted it will prevent me from writing so fully as I would otherwise do - Yet I foresee the letter will not be a short... Apr. 24, 1780
466 Richard Henry Lee William Shippen, Jr. I arrived here six days ago, to give my attendance as a member of this resent General Assembly, and here I received your favor of Apl. 16th. on the 5th. Instant, for which be pleased to accept my... May 7, 1780
467 Richard Henry Lee Henry Laurens I arrived here on the first of this month a member of our general Assembly, and at this place was honored with your favor of the 5th. instant which is the only one that I have received since we... May 16, 1780
468 Richard Henry Lee Henry Laurens I had the honor of writing to you from Richmond some time before I left that place, and hope you have received my letter. Nothing new had occurred when our Assembly adjourned - Cornwallis was still... Jul. 27, 1780
469 Richard Henry Lee Henry Laurens In the letter which I expect you will receive with this I had forgotten to mention an affair to you in which your friendship may avail my sons - I expect that they are arrived from France in the... Jul. 30, 1780
470 Henry Laurens Richard Henry Lee Had I at any time since my arrival here been possessed of a scrap of good News I should have attempted to allay your hungring & thirsting. In the 31 days which I have been sauntering away about... Aug. 1, 1780
471 Richard Henry Lee Arthur Lee After more than four months from its date your letter from Orient, of April the 3d. reached me at this place. I very much approve the plan you propose to pursue on your arrival at Philadelphia - to... Aug. 31, 1780
472 Richard Henry Lee Nathaniel Peabody I do not think myself the less obliged to you for having not sooner answered your kind favor of Nov. the 22d. - It was rather improper to interrupt your attentions at Camp with reading my much less... Sep. 24, 1780
473 Richard Henry Lee Arthur Lee I am happy to hear of your safe arrival in Philadelphia, & I hope to be made more happy by seeing you at Chantilly as soon as you have finished at Congress - As I suppose my sons are on their... Oct. 1780
474 Nathaniel Peabody Richard Henry Lee I have been duly honored by your agreable favour of the 24thUltimo, Inclosing a letter to the director general,1 which has been delivered.Since the 22d November, the date of a letter you mention to... Oct. 27, 1780
475 Richard Henry Lee Theodoric Bland When I propose to you a correspondence between us, I do not mean to interrupt your attention to more weighty matters - but it seems to me Sir that such a correspondence may eventually produce good... Oct. 31, 1780
476 Richard Henry Lee Samuel Adams I was yesterday made happy by your favor of the 30th. current - I say made happy because every recognition of our friendship is extremely agreeable to me. I always imputed your silence to causes... Nov. 10, 1780
477 Richard Henry Lee Daniel Morgan It is with peculiar pleasure that I execute the order of the House of Delegates in transmitting to you their sense, and thro them, the sense that your country entertains of the many signal services... Jan. 1, 1781
478 Richard Henry Lee George Weedon Your favor of yesterday is this moment delivered to me and I will transmit the original to the next County Lieutenant to be read & forwarded - I judge that the 4th. of the Militia of these 4... Jan. 1, 1781
479 Richard Henry Lee Unknown An express from your State has put into my hand a letter directed to Wm Washington Esqr. which I observe has your name on the back of it - I judge of the business it relates to by a letter that the... Jan. 2, 1781
480 Richard Henry Lee William Davies Your favor of the 31st. Ultimo is this moment put into my hands, and fortunately our whole militia is to meet tomorrow in consequence of former orders, so that as little time as possible will be... Jan. 3, 1781
481 Richard Henry Lee Samuel Adams Your favor of the 15th post, was duly delivered to me, by my brother, who with my eldest son arrived safely here a few days ago. The many just and excellent observations, with which your letter... Jan. 5, 1781
482 Richard Henry Lee William Davies My son will have the honor of delivering you this letter - he comes to Richmond upon some business of his Uncles, and by him I take an opportunity of paying my respects to you. The ideas that I had... Jan. 5, 1781
483 Richard Henry Lee George Washington . . . I left Richmond on the 3d Inst. in the Afternoon & in the Evening I received a Letter from the Governour informing me, that Arnold with Six Ships, 7 or 8 Brigs & 10 other Vessels,... Jan. 7, 1781
484 Richard Henry Lee William Davies I am honored with your favors of Septr. the 25th. and October the 1st., for the latter I thank you & I will discharge the duties of the former to the utmost of my power. I am not unapprized of... Jan. 7, 1781
485 Richard Henry Lee George Washington I had the honor of addressing you last by eldest son who went to camp about four weeks ago. since that we have had the pleasure of hearing that your advances against York go successfully on. by... Jan. 12, 1781
486 Samuel Adams Richard Henry Lee Your second Letter came to hand in due Season. My much esteemed Friend Mr Arthur Lee will take the Charge of this. I will say to you as I have said to my Boston Friends, who are sollicitous to know... Jan. 15, 1781
487 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Nelson Immediately upon receiving your Excellencies letter of the 12th instant by express I put the two warrants of impress inclosed in your favor of Septr. 18th into the hands of discreet active men to... Jan. 28, 1781
488 Theodorick Bland Richard Henry Lee We have been for some days past in the most impatient expectation of hearing that the Virtue and ardor of our Countrymen had put a stop to the Progress of Cornwallis, and a period to his handfull... Mar. 5, 1781
489 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson I have had an opportunity of conversing with the worthy Baron at this lace, and he communicates to me a plan of joining his force with Gen. Greene, or so to cooperate with him as to render a... Mar. 27, 1781
490 Richard Henry Lee Samuel Adams A great variety of engagements have prevented me from writing to you lately, and I presume that the same cause as deprived me of the pleasure of hearing from you.We neither of us mean to distress... Apr. 1, 1781
491 Richard Henry Lee Sam Adams A great variety of engagements have prevented me from writing to you lately, and I presume that the same cause has deprived me of the pleasure of hearing from you.We neither of us mean to distress... Apr. 1781
492 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Since I had the honor of writing to you by the Express that brot the acts of assembly, one ship and a brig additional to the enemies force on the day of our rencontre with them, have joined and all... Apr. 13, 1781
493 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson A letter from Gen. Weedon of the 10th instant giving us reason to expect the enemies army presently in this quarter, has been the subject of consideration in a council of our Militia Officers, and... May 10, 1781
494 Richard Henry Lee George Weedon Permit me now to thank you for your favor by Mr. Price and for the newspapers inclosed. It is to be hoped that the pride of Great Britain will with her power be reduced e’er long within the bounds... May 10, 1781
495 Richard Henry Lee Arthur Lee You may observe by the place from whence I write that Chantilly is no longer our place of residence. Since you left us we have been taught to expect, and we have been vigorously preparing to... May 13, 1781
496 John Witherspoon Richard Henry Lee A few Days ago I was favoured with yours of the 27th of April by your Brother1 and do truly feel myself sensibly obliged by your Attention to my Affairs. Your Brother will soon I expect be able to... May 19, 1781
497 Richard Henry Lee George Weedon I have received your letter of yesterday by Express, and shall immediately call our whole Militia together and draw out one half of the armed men - I suppose they may amount to 200 or 250 men -... Jun. 2, 1781
498 Richard Henry Lee Arthur Lee Having just written largely to Mr. Izard and inclosed him my last letters & Intelligence from the Marquis Lafayette I refer you to him for an accurate knowledge of our present state - The enemy... Jun. 4, 1781
499 Richard Henry Lee George Weedon Immediately on receipt of your letter last saturday I dispatched messengers to call our militia together on monday last - and your letter was forwarded to the Officers of the lower counties. Our... Jun. 7, 1781
500 Richard Henry Lee George Washington Altho our correspondence has been long interrupted I hope that our friendship never will, notwithstanding the arts of wicked men who have endeavored to create discord and dissention among the... Jun. 12, 1781