Letters / Correspondence

Robert Mayo

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1 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV I have just returned from my friends in Matthews & Gloucester & regret that so long an interval has elapsed without affording me a suitable opportunity of writing to you, to assure you how... Aug. 21, 1821
2 Henry Lee, IV Robert Mayo I am sorry I have nothing to say on the subject apparently of primary interest to you. To the advice that you wait until December & then act for yourself nothing beneficial can be added, and... Sep. 4, 1821
3 Henry Lee, IV Robert Mayo I forgot to mention how much obliged to you I shall feel for the books you offer me, & that they will reach me if sent to the Messrs. R. & J. Mandeville of Alexa. The ladies were pleased... Sep. 11, 1821
4 Henry Lee Robert Mayo From the short acquaintance I have with you, I count much on your benevolence & to that I trust for indulgence in the liberty I am going to takeRecent events have so shakened my amicable &... Sep. 12, 1821
5 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV Being absent from Richmd for some time passed, on my return I found both your letters by post in my diary. You can scarcely imagine with what delight these visible tokens of your friendly wishes in... Sep. 18, 1821
6 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV My extreme impatience to hear from you really torments me. I fear you have not recd my last in consequence of my directing it to Mattox Bridge, whence I supposed you wd more readily get it, as... Oct. 7, 1821
7 Henry Lee, IV Robert Mayo I can hardly describe the emotions with which the kindness of your letter affects me. After compassing near the 3rd of a century – for the greater part of which I roved gaily through a galaxy of... Oct. 9, 1821
8 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV Your favor of the 9th inst: is recd & the perusal of it affects me with peculiar interest. I assure you it wd give me infinite pleasure to afford every facility in my power to raise the sum you... Oct. 16, 1821
9 Henry Lee, IV Robert Mayo I hasten to inform you that the person you are desirous to see1 is expected every day to be in this county & that the period of which you are anxious to receive the date is the 29th of Novr... Oct. 29, 1821
10 Henry Lee, IV Robert Mayo From the first I believe I intimated to you that the sensibilities of the particular & protecting friends of the young lady, were probably in a state so unsettled and alarmed that a proposition... Nov. 6, 1821
11 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV I returned to town last evening from a short visit to the country, and this evening recd your favor of the 29th Ulto. via Fredericksburg. I have placed the enclosed note in the hands of Mr. Page.... Nov. 7, 1821
12 Robert Mayo Elizabeth McCarty Were it in the power of my pen to infuse into an epistle a just estimate of the sentiments that govern all my actions, cd the principles of my heart be reflected from a letter, as the lineaments of... Nov. 9, 1821
13 Robert Mayo Margaret Rose The profound respect due to you as the parent of Miss McCarty, not only dictates the propriety of making the enclosed communication to her through you, but imperiously demands that I shd confide to... Nov. 10, 1821
14 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV You percieve by the enclosed that the apprehensions communicated by Mr. Page in my last have been confirmed. I assure you that the warmest friend cd not reject it more than I do; and cd any... Nov. 11, 1821
15 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV It is possible this may come to hand by the same mail with one I wrote you on the 10th Inst:. Since that date, I have concluded, upon mature deliberation that it wd be more disreputable to abandon... Nov. 13, 1821
16 Henry Lee, IV Robert Mayo That you should be shocked at the tissue of error and infatuation described in my last letter is not surprising. Even I who have been exposed to such tempests of the soul, shuddered with unusual... Nov. 20, 1821
17 Robert Mayo Elizabeth McCarty Ere this meets your view you will have recd. my first, and perhaps have condemned me as unworthy even of your disdain or contempt. But I wd fain flatter myself otherwise, so I confidently trust... Nov. 20, 1821
18 Henry Lee, IV Robert Mayo Mrs. R. refused to receive your letter and in terms so unfavorable as to inflict pain upon the innocent and injured person who offered it. Hoping that you may come over, I retain it here to await... Nov. 27, 1821
19 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV I am not insensible of the superior merit requisite to an ingenuous persevering & successful prosecution of a great enterprise, over that of merely conceiving the original design. This only... Nov. 27, 1821
20 Robert Mayo Henry Lee I entreat you be not chagrined at seeing another letter instead of myself in person. Under existing circumstances I think a little delay may avail some virtue, some good and at least precipitation... Dec. 4, 1821
21 Robert Mayo Elizabeth McCarty I am at once the most happy & the most wretched of beings. My feelings vibrate with the velocity of lightning, instantaneously & unceasingly between the extremes of hope & despair. At... Dec. 22, 1821
22 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV It is with extreme pain I have endured the disappointment of intelligence from you for the last two weeks. But I feel not confident that your not writing is attributable to yr expecting me over to... Dec. 24, 1821
23 Henry Lee, IV Robert Mayo Your letter of the 27th ultimo reached me last monday & those of the 4th. & 24th. inst. were recd: by the same mail, on thursday last. Pity they had not all been sent by the notorious &... Jan. 1, 1822
24 Henry Lee, IV Robert Mayo By reasons of some casualty in its passage I did not recieve your letter of the 8th before the 24th: inst: Where a man is determined not to fail, it is hard to deny that he will succeed. And unless... 1822
25 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV I snatch a brief moment from the pressure of business to impart to you a hint of “what reinforcement we may gain from hope” which I assure you is a resource with me hitherto inexhaustible & has... Jan. 8, 1822
26 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV The critical period of three weeks since my last letter to Mrs. Rose has now elapsed, during hopes & fears have alternated their influence upon my mind. I have supposed that if Mrs. R’s... Jan. 29, 1822
27 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV My business having brought me as far as this Emporium of American commerce, before I cd. complete my arrangements respecting my publications, (which are now accomplished to my satisfaction) the... Mar. 15, 1822
28 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV It is probable I shall be at Montrose about the time that this will come to hand. Prudence or policy however may dictate a forbearance to call at Stratford. In that case I shall leave the bundle of... Mar. 31, 1822
29 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV I hope Mrs. Lee has received the music I left for her at Montrose with my note & the essay on M. Luther’s merits in Psalmody. She will excuse my neglect to send the note. I was fearful of... Apr. 9, 1822
30 Robert Mayo Henry Lee, IV I have the pleasure to acknowlege the receipt of yrs. of the 21st inst: & regret you had not leisure to say what you had heard respecting my short visit at Montrose. I arrived there about one... Apr. 30, 1822