Letters / Correspondence

Richard Henry Lee

401-450 of 817 letters
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401 James Lovell Richard Henry Lee I believe I made some mistake in putting up the Papers for you by last post, as I find a Letter of the Kind which I intended to have sent. Direction on the Cover -Paris June 5th. 1779His Excellency... Jun. 5, 1779
402 Richard Henry Lee Henry Laurens Our news here is most excellent; both from Williamsburg and from Richmond it comes, that our countrymen have given the enemy in the South a complete overthrow, killed many and taken many prisoners,... Jun. 6, 1779
403 Henry Laurens Richard Henry Lee I had the honour of addressing you under the 1st instant.1 From that day to our yesterday’s adjournment, we have made no progress in the treasury business, nor in our foreign affairs - none at all.... Jun. 8, 1779
404 Richard Henry Lee George Mason I am much obliged to you for your favor of the 4th, but greatly concerned for your state of health. The force of party and the power of fortune it seems to me, are leagued to distress if not to... Jun. 9, 1779
405 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Mifflin I think Fiddle has played a fine tune in Dunlaps paper of May the 29th - If you wish to know what Fiddle, whether a Cremona, a Steyner, or a Base viol, or the Head of a Base Viol, ask our friend... Jun. 13, 1779
406 Samuel Adams Richard Henry Lee I send you the inclosd Extracts from our Friends Letter according to your Request. No Pains are spared to effect the Recall of Mr Arthur Lee.1 If any are in hopes by this to put an End to the... Jun. 13, 1779
407 Nathaniel Scudder Richard Henry Lee I yesterday received your very agreeable Favor of the 6th instant,1 and am much gratified by your Confidence & Approbation, for, be assured my Dear Sir, there are, in public Life, few greater... Jun. 15, 1779
408 Richard Henry Lee Henry Laurens I have not yet been able to send to the Post Office and therefore know not whether I am honored with a letter from you or not by the last Post. A late landing of the enemy in the county next below... Jun. 18, 1779
409 Richard Henry Lee Samuel Adams I am this moment returned from an expedition with our militia to prevent the further ravage of a sett of Tory miscreants from New York who have clubbed their force for the purpose of plunder and... Jun. 18, 1779
410 Richard Henry Lee Samuel Adams Since writing to you yesterday we have had the oportunity of examining a Man that left the enemy whilst they were burning our Warehouses. He is an Eastern Man, was captured sometime ago and... Jun. 19, 1779
411 Richard Henry Lee Samuel Adams I well know that your engagement with the pub. business will not permit you to write to me so frequently as I wish to hear from you, or as my leisure permits me to write to you. This will be the... Jun. 20, 1779
412 Richard Henry Lee Henry Laurens I had the honor of writing to you on the 18th. instant previous to my leaving Chantilly for this my brothers seat. I have here been favored with your obliging letter of the 8th. with its... Jun. 20, 1779
413 Richard Henry Lee William Whipple I wish this may find you as happy at Philadelphia as we are at Chantilly - nothing but the want of rain disturbs us, we have neither wicked, perverse or foolish Politicians here whose misconduct... Jun. 26, 1779
414 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson The Express that now waits on you from the field Officers of these exposed counties, furnishes me with an opportunity of thanking you for your favor of the 17th. ult. It is unnecessary for me to... Jul. 8, 1779
415 Richard Henry Lee Henry Laurens I am to thank you, which I do very sincerely, for your favor of the 22d. ulto. - It would give me infinitely more pleasure if my friends could inform me that the essential parts of business were... Jul. 10, 1779
416 James Searle Richard Henry Lee I was highly gratified with the rect. of your obliging letter of the 27th of last month.To deserve the esteem of all good men is the Supreme object of my Soul; Judge then Sir what my feelings must... Jul. 10, 1779
417 James Lovell Richard Henry Lee I did not return from the Conclave till 5 o’clock, hard duty to an infirm Man. I there heard the Vindication read, but there is a Man who can never read distinctly & deliberately when he does... Jul. 17, 1779
418 James Lovell Richard Henry Lee Since I wrote you last1 I have recd. a Duplicate of all the papers which I have mentioned therein to you as having been sent by yr. Brother Ar[thu]r. I found also in the 2d Packet some that were... Jul. 31, 1779
419 James Lovell Richard Henry Lee 2 Mr. Bennet parted from me on Saturday and probably will get home in less Time than he came.3 I shall attend all in my power to the Subjects you have written about: but I am verily exceeding sick... Aug. 1779
420 Richard Henry Lee Henry Laurens Four days ago I was honored with your favors of the 16th. & 20th. of July with their inclosures, for which I pray you to accept my sincerest thanks. I am grieved to hear of your illness, not... Aug. 1, 1779
421 Richard Henry Lee Henry Laurens Before this reaches you I hope you will be very comfortably placed in your new lodging. I do not know how it will be in other respects, but I think the neighborhood must be better than the one you... Aug. 1779
422 William Whipple Richard Henry Lee It gives me pleasure to find by Your favor of the 8th inst that you have got the better of Your indisposition & I hope shortly to have the additional satisfaction of being informed that your... Aug. 1779
423 Richard Henry Lee William Whiple My indisposition prevented my replying to your favor of the 11th by last post, and I am now very unwell but will no longer delay thanking you. We are much obliged to the Marine Committee for their... Aug. 8, 1779
424 Richard Henry Lee Editor of the Pennsylvania Packet The public may now see by the printed Journals of Congress, that the Hon. Arthur Lee, Esq., continues in high confidential place in Europe, under the authority of these United States. They may see... Aug. 10, 1779
425 Henry Laurens Richard Henry Lee My last trouble is dated the 3d Inst per post;1 yesterday I was favored with yours of the 1st2 accompanied by Copies of three Letters which I fear will be of very little use or service... Aug. 10, 1779
426 Richard Henry Lee Arthur Lee Mr. Ford has arrived and delivered safely all his dispatches for me and for Congress. An Express now waits to carry the latter to Philadelphia - I believe but am not certain that the new Minister... Aug. 12, 1779
427 Richard Henry Lee James Lovell The packets that will be delivered you herewith are just put into my hands from France. - I have hired an express upon the best terms I possibly could to carry them to Philadelphia - He is a sober,... Aug. 13, 1779
428 Richard Henry Lee Henry Laurens I have received so many demonstrations of the extreme wickedness of a certain set that I can be surprised at nothing they do. Otherwise I should certainly have been astonished at the rascality of... Aug. 13, 1779
429 Richard Henry Lee Arthur Lee There is no truth that I am more fully persuaded of, than I am that Gerard's countenance of and siding with Mr. Deane and his party has injured the American cause more than a reifnforcement of... Aug. 14, 1779
430 James Lovell Richard Henry Lee Your Favor of the 7th is in my hand. I am surprized that you had not then heard of the Arrival of Ford on the 1st at Metompkin.1Mr. J. Adams was at Braintree on the 3d and Count Luzerne in Boston.2... Aug. 17, 1779
431 Richard Henry Lee John Dunlap Mr. Lee "was dragged into the treaty with the utmost reluctance," says S. Deane. I shall make it appear that, from the moment the treaty was taken up by the French Court, Mr. Lee was... Aug. 24, 1779
432 James Lovell Richard Henry Lee Very ill, probably with a settled fever, I must be short. Mr. Bennit, on the 27th, delivered to me all the Papers you specified.1 I send you what letters I have by me that I think you want. If you... Aug. 28, 1779
433 Richard Henry Lee John Dunlap My plan has been to notice in order such parts of Mr. Deane’s address of Dec. 5, 1778, as called in question Doctor Lee’s fidelity to America and to her ally, intending afterwards to make some... Aug. 31, 1779
434 Richard Henry Lee Charles Lee I am much obliged to you for your favor of the 24th. past with its enclosures, both which, with your letter for the Squire, I shall send to him shortly. I congratulate you with great sincerity on... Aug. 31, 1779
435 Henry Laurens Richard Henry Lee Since the date of my last trouble the 24th Inst.1 I have been honored with your favors of the 13th & 23d,2 The former by an express Messenger, who assured me he should not return till this day,... Aug. 31, 1779
436 James Lovell Richard Henry Lee The Vote for appointing a minister plenipotentiary in lieu of a Commissioner to negotiate a Treaty of Amity & Commerce with Spain having passed as I have shewn, and A Lee being nominated with J... Sep. 1779
437 Richard Henry Lee William Whipple I am infinitely obliged to you for your very friendly letter of the 3rd last, and I assure you that while I live I shall never fail to retain the most affectionate remembrance of you. My health I... Sep. 4, 1779
438 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson The Chevalier D’Armour who will have the honor of delivering you this letter, having been lately appointed Consul of France for this State, as he before was for Maryland, comes now to pay his... Sep. 6, 1779
439 William Whipple Richard Henry Lee When I did myself the Honor of writing to you last, it was my intention to tarry here till the latter end of next month, but the arrival of a second Colleague has altered my determination. I shall... Sep. 18, 1779
440 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson I have the honor of enclosing you a letter that Mr. Mazzie formerly sent to me, and which having been mislaid among a number of papers, prevented me from returning to him so soon as he desired. It... Sep. 20, 1779
441 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson I had the honor of writing to you a few days past by Mr. Booth, to which I beg leave to refer. This I expect will be delivered to you by Messrs. Loyeauté & Le Maire - the latter is realy... Sep. 23, 1779
442 Henry Laurens Richard Henry Lee I have not had the pleasure of writing to you since the 14th Inst.1 Yesterday I was honored with your favors of the 12th & 19th.2You have quite mistaken the motive for "Committing for... Sep. 28, 1779
443 Richard Henry Lee John Adams I congratulate you most sincerely on your safe return to your family and your country. I hope you found the former in good health and the latter I am very sensible will be at all times benefitted... Oct. 8, 1779
444 Henry Laurens Richard Henry Lee Since my last Letter to you under the 28th September I have not been honored with any of your favors, nor from a former intimation, could I have expected to hear from you.1We remain without any... Oct. 12, 1779
445 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson I am very much obliged to you for your favor of the 28 of September and for the trouble you took in writing a copy of the letter I wrote to you by Mr. Ford. I was well apprized that nothing in it... Oct. 13, 1779
446 Richard Henry Lee James Searle Since I was favored with yours of August the 20th. which I fully answered by the return of post, I have not had the pleasure of a line from you. I now take the liberty of enclosing you by Colo.... Oct. 15, 1779
447 James Lovell Richard Henry Lee Your Favor of the 3d reached me early yesterday, & those of the 9th & 16th this morning by Col Loyaute. There are Letters of mine on the Road to you which will reach you with the Registers.... Oct. 26, 1779
448 Richard Henry Lee Nathaniel Scudder I regret extremely, as well on public as on private account, that concurrence of accidents which has hitherto prevented, and will for sometime prevent me from seeing and conversing with you - I had... Nov. 23, 1779
449 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Being thus far on my way up the country I have received a letter by post from Phila., in which a Member of Congress thus expresses himself "there is undoubtedly a capital embarkation on foot... Dec. 1779
450 James Lovell Richard Henry Lee Yr Favr. of Novr. 30th1 reached me too late on Tuesday the 14th to permit a Line in Return. I now find what you asked for and some french Vouchers intended originally for You. I add some Letters... Dec. 18, 1779