Letters / Correspondence

Richard Henry Lee

251-300 of 817 letters
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251 William Booth Richard Henry Lee I take the opportunity by Mr Harvey to acquaint you that there is to be a severe attack made on you, at the meeting of the Assembly. I understand they have got your letter to Capt. Scott: I flatter... Oct. 7, 1777
252 Richard Henry Lee Patrick Henry I must make one general apology for the matter and manner of my letters-the want of time to discharge with propriety, an hundredth part of the business with which I am crowded. My eyes fail me... Oct. 8, 1777
253 Richard Henry Lee Patrick Henry I must make one general apology for the matter and manner of my letters, the want of time to discharge with propriety, an hundredth part of the business with which I am crowded. My eyes fail me... Oct. 8, 1777
254 Richard Henry Lee Arthur Lee I heared with much pleasure that you were destined to the Court of Berlin, because I think you may be able to do your Country essential services there. The power and the magnanimity of the Prussian... Oct. 13, 1777
255 Richard Henry Lee George Pyncheon, John Bradford The Bearer whom we have employed to prevail, if he can, with eight Sergeants belonging to the late Gen. Coudrays corps of Artillery, to return, and enter into the service of the Commonwealth of... Oct. 16, 1777
256 Richard Henry Lee Patrick Henry I congratulate you most sincerely on the very important intelligence that I have now the pleasure to enclose you, which came express this morning to the President in a letter from Colo. Trumbull... Oct. 16, 1777
257 Richard Henry Lee - Congress having authorised their Committee of intelligence to get a Press fixed in this Town. I am as Chairman of that Committee, to propose to yo<u that> your Press be immediately brought... Oct. 17, 1777
258 George Washington Richard Henry Lee Your favour of the 5th. Instant, as also that of the 11th. by Baron de Kalb, are both at hand. It is not in my power, at present, to answer your Query respecting the appointment of this Gentleman:... Oct. 17, 1777
259 Richard Henry Lee William Shippen, Jr. I feel too sensibly the number and weight of the obligations under which your goodness has laid me, not to entreat earnestly, that you will excuse me from this last effort of your friendship, and... Oct. 18, 1777
260 Richard Henry Lee George Wythe I have once before, since our session here, given you an account of the progress of war in these parts and further North, but the irregularity of the Post gives reason to doubt whether you have... Oct. 19, 1777
261 Richard Henry Lee George Washington Your favor of the 16th I received yesterday, and was a good deal surprised to find you had been told that Congress had appointed Gen. Conway a Major General.1 No such appointment has been made, nor... Oct. 20, 1777
262 Richard Henry Lee Edward Hand We enclose you herewith a resolve of Congress appointing us a Committee for the purpose described in the resolution, and we apply to you Sir as a Friend to the cause of America, and as an Officer... Oct. 24, 1777
263 Richard Henry Lee - The inclosed resolve will explain to you the design of our appointment, and the reason of our present application. As a friend to the cause of America, and as a Gentleman living on the spot which... Oct. 24, 1777
264 Richard Henry Lee Patrick Henry The slow but sure moving Gates has not yet sent us his glorious Inventory. However, the intelligence of Burgoyne’s surrender comes to us through such good channels that we do not doubt its truth,... Oct. 25, 1777
265 George Washington Richard Henry Lee The report of Genl. Conways promotion was so prevalent, and came from such authority, among others from Baron Kalb, who told me, that by some members of Congress he was informed it either had, or... Oct. 28, 1777
266 Richard Henry Lee George Morgan * * * We have it in Charge from Congress to inform you of the inclosed Resolution which we transmit you for that Purpose. You’ll therefore, we trust, take due Notice thereof - and give your... Oct. 30, 1777
267 Richard Henry Lee Roger Sherman I am much obliged to you for your favor of the 3d which I should have answered sooner if I had not been prevented by ill health and very much business.The surrender of Burgoyne is no doubt of great... Nov. 1777
268 Richard Henry Lee Samuel Adams The Bearer of this, Capt. Romane is a Gentleman of Monsr. Coudrays corps who arrived here lately from Charles Town and is now returning by the way of Boston to France with his companions This young... Nov. 1777
269 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Mifflin I thank you for your obliging favor of the 28th past, and for the inclosures accompanying it. I assure you Sir that having received such original impressions of your firm attachment to the cause of... Nov. 2, 1777
270 Richard Henry Lee Samuel Purviance, Jr. I had heared of my loss before yours of the 15th came to hand, and I regret it the more as Cards, and good ones especially, are not easy to be got. Those that you speak of, I had interested myself... Nov. 17, 1777
271 George Washington Richard Henry Lee Your favour of the 7th. Instant should not have remained so long unanswered, but for the uncertainty of Colonel Pickering’s acceptance of his new Appointment. He has now determined to do this,... Nov. 18, 1777
272 Richard Henry Lee George Washington I have no doubt of being excused by you for not sooner answering your favor of the 24th last,1 when you are informed that my ill state of health has prevented me from attending as I ought to the... Nov. 20, 1777
273 Richard Henry Lee Samuel Adams I need not make an apology for my paper because you know our choice of things here is confined within narrow bounds, as little occasion is there to excuse the slovenly manner in which this letter... Nov. 23, 1777
274 Richard Henry Lee Patrick Henry I am just favored with yours of the 14th and thank you for it.1 Every attempt to clothe the army is commendable, upon principles both of humanity and policy. As there is great Trade at Charles Town... Nov. 24, 1777
275 Richard Henry Lee John Page I shall endeavour to answer your several queries concerning Gen. De Borre, but in the first place permit me to lay down a certain general principle by which I am actuated.2To counteract by all... Nov. 25, 1777
276 Richard Henry Lee Patrick Henry Sir, Conversing with Monsr Loyeaute, on the subject of what you are pleased to say the assembly have in contemplation for him, we find the plan quite the reverse of his wishes, and inconsistent... Nov. 27, 1777
277 James Lovell Richard Henry Lee A Packet arriving this Week directed to the Committee of Correspondence, and containing only a Letter from Berlin for Congress,1I took the freedom of opening one directed to our worthy Friend S... Dec. 1777
278 James Lovell Richard Henry Lee The day after you left York, I moved Congress for an Order in the following words. "Whereas it is of the greatest Importance that Congress should, at this critical conjuncture be well informed... Dec. 1777
279 Richard Henry Lee John Dunlap I have said that the news of Burgoyne’s surrender arrived in Paris December 4th, 1777, when Doctor Lee had no Secretary; and that February 21st, misprinted by you 11th, cannot be termed "about... Dec. 10, 1777
280 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Johnson Passing thro this Country in my way home from Congress, I find it the common talk here, that many avaricious, inconsiderate, and illdesigning people, have practised largely the carrying live stock... Dec. 13, 1777
281 Francis Lightfoot Lee Richard Henry Lee A Letr. from the Genl. of the 10th advises that Genl. Howe after many manoeuvres in which he gained no advantage & a good deal of skirmishing, in which he sustained pretty considerable loss,... Dec. 15, 1777
282 James Lovell Richard Henry Lee I shall leave you to get news at large respecting our army, and the transactions of Congress, from your worthy brother, only saying as to the first, that the extremity of those injuries which were... Dec. 28, 1777
283 Richard Henry Lee Patrick Henry The state of my health has hitherto by no means permitted me to leave home any distance, or I should certainly have obeyed your summons - I hope however, in a few days to be able to pay my respect... 1778
284 Richard Henry Lee George Washington The inclosed come to my hand only a few days past altho from its date it appears to have been written long since. There are some useful suggestions in it, and therefore I send it to you - I do not... Jan. 2, 1778
285 Richard Henry Lee George Weedon I thank you for your favor of the 16th. last, which I received here a few days ago. We had heared of Gen. Howes sortie, which I think has been attended with as little honor as advantage to him. It... Jan. 2, 1778
286 Richard Henry Lee Jonathan Trumbull, Sr. I am no Stranger to the great merit of your late worthy son Mr. Commissary General Trumbull, and my endeavours have not been wanting to procure for his family that justice which is eminently due to... Jan. 2, 1778
287 Richard Henry Lee Francis Lightfoot Lee The last Post day brought no letters from you or any of my friends, occasioned I suppose by the severity of the weather, which prevented the rider from travelling and crossing Rivers. I shall be... Jan. 3, 1778
288 James Lovell Richard Henry Lee Your favors of the 15th & 23d of January came yesterday to hand.1 I am exceedingly pleased with the proceedings of your General Assembly. I hold them out in all my letters to the eastward as a... Jan. 5, 1778
289 Richard Henry Lee George Washington I hope the measures you have taken will be effectual to the purpose of reenlisting the Army because it is an object of great importance; and I readily admit the propriety of first trying those... Jan. 5, 1778
290 Nathaniel Scudder Richard Henry Lee I have not written to you sooner, because in reality I had little of Importance to write. The ancient Motto of "festina lente" or that of "Nil operose agendo" will yet apply to... Jan. 9, 1778
291 Richard Henry Lee Gerard I have heard with great pleasure of the dispersion of Admiral Byron’s fleet, the loss of the Somerset and the sailing of M. Le Count d’Estaing On all which happy events, I beg leave to have the... Jan. 13, 1778
292 Richard Henry Lee Annette Carter I am exceedingly obliged to you for your favor of the 28 Ulto., by the contents of which I have reason to think you have written me a letter that has never come to hand - Indeed I strongly suspect... Jan. 15, 1778
293 Richard Henry Lee Patrick Henry I send you by this opportunity the trial of Gen. Lee, which be pleased to let our friends Colo. Mason, Mr. Wythe, and Mr. Jefferson see, after you have read it. I will not anticipate your... Jan. 15, 1778
294 Richard Henry Lee Printer of the Pennsylvania General Advertiser I have just read in your paper of december the 5th. a long libel signed Silas Deane, but I have read it with that composure that ever attends a good conscience, and that satisfaction which arises... Jan. 16, 1778
295 Francis Lightfoot Lee Richard Henry Lee Publications still continue in abundance to blacken the Lees & make Deane the greatest Man in the World. The cry is in their favor, no one has dared to enter the lists with them but Common... Jan. 22, 1778
296 Richard Henry Lee Arthur Lee It is now something more than two months since my ill state of health compelled me to leave Congress for a rime. Being pretty well recovered, I shall return to Congress in a fortnight. Since my... Jan. 23, 1778
297 Richard Henry Lee William Lee Referring you to the many letters I have lately written several of which have I hope reached you, this shall be chiefly confined to private business. My ill state of health obliging me to leave... Jan. 25, 1778
298 Francis Lightfoot Lee Richard Henry Lee The day on which my last Letter was wrote, Mr. Deane produced to Congress his written narrative of his transactions & accusations.1 The first the most pompous bloated thing that ever was on... Jan. 25, 1778
299 Richard Henry Lee Arthur Lee The Marquis Fayette left us to day for Boston where he is to embark. This letter will follow him with our dispatches. I wish that a true friendship may take place between you and the Marquis,... Jan. 27, 1778
300 Richard Henry Lee William Whipple I thank you sincerely for your obliging favor of the 8th instant which I received a few days past Nothing can be more pleasing to me in my retirement than to hear from my friends, and the pleasure... Jan. 29, 1778