Letters / Correspondence

Richard Henry Lee

801-817 of 817 letters
Letters table
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801 Robert E. Lee Richard Henry Lee It gives me great pain to inform you that your son Cadet Richd. H. Lee Jr. left his room last night about 10 P.M. with the intention, as avowed to his roommate, of leaving the Military Academy.... Sep. 6, 1852
802 Richard Henry Lee Tabitha Jordan Curry Lee I wrote you yesterday & in that I expressed the opinion that our Seaboards would probably be advanced – Today we have strong evidence of that – Gen Bragg is ordered to Tennessee – Gen... Feb. 28, 1862
803 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee Shippen It will be a fortnight tomorrow since I have beenalmostwholly confined to my Room with a severe stroke of the Influenza that had nearly dispatched me to that Country from whose Bourne no Traveller... May 14, 1890
804 Richard Henry Lee Edmund Jennings Lee I hav been absent from Leesburg since June 3. until day before yesterday. On yesterday the express agent sent me your Genalogical book. I thank-you very much for it & shall appreciate it... Jul. 18, 1895
805 Richard Henry Lee John Page I am extremely obliged to you for your last favour and much pleased with the spirit of your letter. I am as sure as of my existence that if our large Gallies were manned, gunned, and fitted, that... Feb. 19, 1977
806 Richard Henry Lee William Lee By meer accident, at Mr. Blains store I met with this opportunity by Mr. Adams, and being taken by surprise, I cannot so fully as I wish answer your letter lately received. If you had recollected,... -
807 Richard Henry Lee William Lee Yesterday at Nomony ferry, in my way with Mrs. Lee to Northumberland, I received your several favors by our Cousin Lancelot, and just catch a moment here to answer them by Capt. New who is expected... -
808 Richard Henry Lee Samuel Adams I did myself the pleasure of writing to you from this place before my departure for our Assembly in May last and again from Williamsburg immediately after our dissolution, inclosing the order for... -
809 Richard Henry Lee Charles Lee The desire of being here at the formation of our new Government brought me from Philadelphia the 13th of this month. I have been in this City a week where I have had the pleasure to see our new... -
810 Richard Henry Lee Annette Carter The slow but sure moving Gates has not yet sent us his glorious Inventory, but an Officer who saw Burgery with Gates gives the following list to a Gentleman who is arrived at Reading - -
811 Richard Henry Lee Patrick Henry I find Mr. Ellis desirous of superintending the estate of Mr. Paridise and this at the same time, and I am very willing to second his views in this matter, because I am satisfied it will redound to... -
812 Richard Henry Lee John Page I am much obliged to you for your kind letter by last Post, by which however I see you had not received any of the several letters I had written to you since my arrival here. The prevailing opinion... -
813 Richard Henry Lee George Turberville, Sr. When last you wrote to me, you supposed that if your Counter petition got to Richmond by the first of June it would be soon enough -My advice is, that you send it as soon as you can, because, it is... -
814 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. where I... -
815 Robert E. Lee Richard Henry Lee It gives me great pain to inform you that your son Cadet Richd. H. Lee Jr. left his room last night about 10 P.M. with the intention, as avowed to his roommate, of leaving the Military Academy.... -
816 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson The inclosed Gazette will shew you the progress, and perhaps the end for some time, of our negotiation with the British Commissioners. They, with their whole Army have abandoned Philadelphia, and... -
817 Richard Henry Lee - I have read in a recent number of your papers the Address & the people of Alexandria. to Genl. Washington, just after his departure from Mt Vernon, to assume the office of President.On reading... -