Richard Henry Lee to William Rind

I never yet have seen, nor till lately ever knew of your publication, concerning the picture of Lord Chatham presented to the Gentlemen of this county by Edmund Jennings, Esq., of London. I understand you mention this picture as obtained by subscription, when the truth is, that the generous attachment of Mr. Jennings to liberty, his native country, and their great defender, influenced him, at his private expense, to present this picture of Lord Chatham to the Gentlemen of Westmoreland. Your misfortune has arisen, I conjecture, from a subscribed sum of money having been sent to London for Lord Camden’s portrait, which gratitude, and a just sense of the great support the American cause received from that noble Lord, made the Gentlemen here wish to obtain.

R. H. Lee