Richard Henry Lee Papers
Mss.B.L51
Richard Henry Lee Papers | 1766-1823 | 0.5 lin. feet | Box 1 | |
Adanson, Michel, 1727-1806.
ALS to Arthur Lee | 1766 February 22 | 1p. | ||
In Latin | ||||
Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794.
ALS to [George Wythe] | 1766 July 25 | 3p. | ||
Vindication against being friendly to the Stamp Act | ||||
Cardross, Lord.
ALS to Arthur Lee | 1767 October 31 | 2p. | ||
Adams, Samuel.
ALS to D. DeBirdt | 1768 May 14 | 4p. | ||
Massachusetts politics; Stamp Act; Non-Importation agreement | ||||
Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1768 December 27 | 4p. | ||
Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794.
ALS Cy to John Dickinson | 1768 August 10 | 6p. | ||
Includes copies of Lee to Dickinson, 1768 Nov. 26, and Dickinson to Lee, 1768 August 10, 1769 January 16, and 1773 May 30 | ||||
Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1768 December 27 | 4p. | ||
Melancholy state of politics in England. Shelburne is sound, but not likely to lead. Farmer's letters widely read, but to little purpose. | ||||
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808.
ALS Cy to Richard Henry Lee | 1769 June 22 | 2p. | ||
Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1769 August 15 | 6p. | ||
Complex state of British politics. | ||||
Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1769 September 18 | 2p. | ||
Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1769 September or October | 3p. | ||
Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1769 November 15 | 4p. | ||
Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1769 November 19 | 2p. | ||
Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1769 December 3 | 3p. | ||
Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1770 May 20 | 2p. | ||
Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1770 October 20 | 2p. | ||
Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802.
ALS to Arthur Lee | 1771 January 31 | 2p. | ||
"I see you lament, with all the feelings of true Patriotism, that the Firmness of America has at last given way to thte combined arts of ministerial and mercantile wickedness..." | ||||
Jennings, Edmund.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1771 August 17 | 3p. | ||
Jennings, Edmund.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1771 December 29 | 2p. | ||
Plus 2p. inclosure | ||||
Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1772 Aug. 17 | 3p. | ||
Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794.
ALS Cy to John Dickinson | 1773 April 4 | 2p. | ||
Adams, Samuel.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1773 April 10 | 4p. | ||
Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1774 March 18 | 4p. | ||
Urges unity in opposition to British attempts to split Massachusetts from the other colonies. | ||||
"Several Natives of America".
Petition to Great Britain. Parliament | 1774 March 26 | 3p. | ||
Remonstrance against financial reprisals taken against Boston tea party. | ||||
Adams, Samuel.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1774 July 15 | 3p. | ||
Bostonians repond to the Port Bill by resolving to withstand the hardships. | ||||
Washington, George (1732-1799).
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1774 August 9 | 1p. | ||
Stephen, Adam.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1774 Aug. 27 | 3p. | ||
"The Fate of America depends upon your Meeting and the Eyes of the European World hang upon you waiting the Event." Need for arms in Virginia: "At the Congress this ought to be privately taken into consideration -- A plan laid for encouraging Numbers of Gun lock smiths to come in -- A number of Locks to be imported with Caution -- to prevent suspicion and as many arms as could be got -- I imagine that we want 100,000 stand of Arms. We have great difficulty in fitting out the few men we want on this occasion." | ||||
Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1774 Dec. 22 | 3p. | ||
Stephen, Adam.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1775 Feb. 1 | 4p. | ||
Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794.
ADS | ca.1775 Feb. 2 | 3p. | ||
Opinion re: Committee of King George's County, Va. | ||||
Stephen, Adam.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1775 Feb. 17 | 2p. | ||
Adams, Samuel.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1775 March 21 | 4p. | ||
Gage and British troops more insolent than ever. Oration to commemorate the Boston Massacre. | ||||
United States. Continental Congress.
Petition (ADf fragment) to George III | 1775 April 5 | 1p. | ||
United States. Continental Congress.
ADf to London (England). Lord Mayor | 1775 May | 1p. | ||
Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794.
ADfS to Gouverneur Morris | 1775 May 28 | 4p. | ||
Philopatria.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1775 June 1 | 3p. | ||
Washington, George (1732-1799).
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1775 July 10 | 4p. | ||
Situation of the army besieging Boston: "between you and me I think we are in an exceeding dangerous situation, as our numbers are not much larger than we suppose, from the best accts. we are able to get, those of the Enemy to be." | ||||
Lee, Charles, 1731-1782.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1775 Sept. 2 | 2p. | ||
Stephen, Adam.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1775 Sept. 23 | 2p. | ||
Wiandots and other Indians between Detroit and Niagara are "greatly divided." | ||||
Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1775 Oct. 19 | 1p. | ||
Washington, George (1732-1799).
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1775 Oct. 29 | 2p. | ||
Washington, George (1732-1799).
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1775 Nov. 27 | 4p. | ||
State of the army and ships available. "For Godsake hurry the signers of money that our want may be supplied." | ||||
Lee, Charles, 1731-1782.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1775 Dec. 12 | 4p. | ||
Proposes seizing the estates of all opponents of liberty and banishing them to internal exile; fortify and garrison New York or destroy it. | ||||
Washington, George (1732-1799).
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1775 Dec. 26 | 4p. | ||
Response to Dunmore's "diabolical" proclamation to arm slaves. | ||||
Lee, Charles, 1731-1782.
ALS Cy to Lord Piercy | 1775 | 2p. | ||
London (England). Lord Mayor and Common Council.
Petition Cy to George III | 1775 | 2p. | ||
Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1775 | 2p. | ||
Page, John, 1744-1808.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1776 Feb. 20 | 3p. | ||
Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794.
ALS to Charles Lee | 1776 Feb. | 1p. | ||
Washington, George (1732-1799).
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1776 Apr. 4 | 3p. | ||
Lakes are impassable and troops cannot be spared. Flight of British from Boston. Need a hospital badly for the troops. | ||||
Lee, Charles, 1731-1782.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1776 Apr. 5 | 4p. | ||
Complaints of timidity of political leadership. Bland says the author of Common Sense is a blockhead. | ||||
Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1776 Apr. 8 | 1p. | ||
Lee, Charles, 1731-1782.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1776 Apr. 12 | 4p. | ||
Lee, Charles, 1731-1782.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1776 May 10 | 3p. | ||
"by the eternal God if you do not declare immediately for positive independence We are all ruin'd -- there is a poorness of spirit and languor in the late proceedings of the Congress that I confess frightens me so much, that at times I regret having embark'd my all, my fortune, life and reputation..." | ||||
Washington, George (1732-1799).
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1776 May 18 | 1p. | ||
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Declaration of Independence | June 1776 | 1 item(s) | oversize Oversize box | |
Other Descriptive Information: 2nd draft of the Declaration of Independence, in hand of Thomas Jefferson. To view this document, please consult with the Curator of Manuscripts. | ||||
Adams, Samuel.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1776 July 15 | 3p. | ||
Howe in New York. "Our Declaration of Independency has given Vigor to the Spirits of the People. Had this decisive measure been taken Nine Months ago, it is my opinion that Canada would at this time have been in our hands..." | ||||
Chase, Samuel, 1741-1811.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1776 July 30 | 3p. | ||
United States. Continental Congress.
ADf Proposed additions to the instructions given to the Commissioners going to France | 1776 Oct. | 2p. | ||
Authorization to seek arms and troops from France and Spain. | ||||
Shippen, William, 1736?-1808.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1776 Dec. 17 | 2p. | ||
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1776 Dec. 20 | 4p. | ||
"We are much blamed by the Whigs and ridiculed by the Tories for leaving Philada. so suddenly." | ||||
Shippen, William, 1736?-1808.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1776 Dec. 20 | 4p. | ||
Recommendations to Congress on the needs of military hospitals. | ||||
Shippen, William, 1736?-1808.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1776 Dec. 20 | 4p. | ||
United States. Continental Congress.
ALS to Commissioners to France | 1776 Dec. 21 | 2p. | ||
News of progress of war. | ||||
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1776 Dec. 21 | 4p. | ||
United States. Continental Congress.
Cy to the States | 1776 Dec. 29 | 1p. | ||
Appointing Lee, Adams, and Wilson as a committee to draft a letter explaining why Congress has expanded the powers given to Washington | ||||
United States. Continental Congress.
ALS to Commissioners to France | 1776 Dec. 30 | 4p. | ||
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1776 Dec. 30 | 4p. | ||
"There is no soil so dear to a soldier as that which is marked with the footsteps of a flying enemy." | ||||
Davenport, James.
Subscription in support of John Sears | 1776 | 1p. | ||
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1776 [i.e. 1777] Jan. 6 | 3p. | ||
News of Battle of Princeton. | ||||
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 Jan. 7 | 4p. | ||
Mercer is improving after wounding at Princeton. More news of Princeton. | ||||
Washington, George (1732-1799).
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 Jan. 10 | 1p. | ||
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 Jan. 14 | 4p. | ||
Suggests commissary send supplies to American POWs. Rumors that the British have raised large numbers of Russians and Germans to serve in America; news of Battle of Trenton reaches New York. | ||||
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 Jan. 14 | 3p. | ||
Shippen, William, 1736?-1808.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 Jan. 17 | 3p. | ||
United States. Continental Congress.
ALS to Commissioners to France | 1777 Feb. 19 | 2p. | ||
Washington, George (1732-1799).
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 Mar. 6 | 2p. | ||
Carmichael, William.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 Mar. 17 | 1p. | ||
Arthur Lee is in Spain. Introducing the Marquis de Lafayette and Baron deKalb. | ||||
United States. Congress.
ALS Cy to George Washington | 1777 Apr. 10 | 1p. | ||
Stephen, Adam.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 Apr. 22 | 2p. | ||
Jerseymen and Virginians will bear the burden of fighting while "The Myriads of the North -- the Great Women... seem Cloy'd of fighting and are wonderfully backward in turning out." | ||||
Washington, George (1732-1799).
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 Apr. 22 | 4p. | ||
Washington, George (1732-1799).
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 May 10 | 1p. | ||
Introducing the Chevalier d'Annemours. | ||||
Washington, George (1732-1799).
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 May 17 | 4p. | ||
Requests instructions for what to do with so many foreigners appointed by Congress to field officer over native born Americans. | ||||
Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794.
ALS to George Washington | 1777 May 22 | 2p. | ||
Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794.
ADfS to Patrick Henry | 1777 May | 4p. | ||
Washington, George (1732-1799).
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 June 1 | 3p. | ||
Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792.
ALS Cy to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 June 15 | 4p. | ||
Adams, Samuel.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 June 26 | 2p. | ||
Chase, Samuel, 1741-1811.
ALS Cy to Unidentified recipient | 1777 July 1 | 2p. | ||
Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794.
ALS to Thomas Paine | 1777 July 13 | 2p. | ||
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 July 1 | 2p. | ||
Wythe, George, 1726-1806.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 Aug. 24 | 2p. | ||
Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 Sept. 13 | 1p. | ||
De Kalb, Johann, 1721-1780.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 Sept. 16 | 1p. | ||
Page, Mann.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 Sept. 23 | 2p. | ||
News of defeat of Burgoyne at Saratoga. | ||||
Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 Oct. 11 | 1p. | ||
Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794.
ALS Cy to George Pynchon and John Bradford | 1777 Oct. 14 | 1p. | ||
Wythe, George, 1726-1806.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 Oct. 18 | 1p. | ||
Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794.
ADfS to George Wythe | 1777 Oct. 19 | 3p. | ||
Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794.
ADfS to United States. Congress | 1777 Oct. 24 | 1p. | ||
Page, Mann.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 Oct. 27 | 2p. | ||
Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 Nov. 5 | 3p. | ||
Wythe, George, 1726-1806.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 Nov. 6 | 2p. | ||
Wilkes, John.
ALS to Arthur Lee | 1777 Nov. 9 | 3p. | ||
"This poor country is fallen into a fatal lethargy, from which all efforts to rouse her seem ineffectual. The single loss of Minorca drove the people of England almost to madness, now thirteen provinces dismembered from the British empire scarcely excite a murmur, except among a very few, who dare to love their country even at this disagreeable period." | ||||
Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 Nov. 12 | 3p. | ||
Chase, Samuel, 1741-1811.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 Nov. 28 | 2p. | ||
Lee, William, 1739-1795.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1777 Dec. 3 | 2p. | ||
Urges enlisting British and German deserters to encourage such behavior. | ||||
Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794.
ADfS to Thomas Johnson | 1777 Dec. 13 | 2p. | ||
Complaint about Marylanders trading with British warships. | ||||
Lovell, James, 1737-1814.
ALS Cy to Thomas Johnson | 1777 Dec. 28 | 4p. | ||
Lee, Charles, 1731-1782.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | ca.1777 | 2p. | ||
Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794.
ALS Cy to George Washington | 1778 Jan. 2 | 2p. | ||
Re: British tricks and forgery of "Letters from Washington." | ||||
Washington, George (1732-1799).
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1778 Feb. 15 | 2p. | ||
"The enemy are governed by no principles that ought to actuate honest men..." | ||||
Windham, W..
ALS to Arthur Lee | 1778 March 12 | 1p. | ||
Adams, Samuel.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1778 Apr. 20 | 3p. | ||
Conway, Thomas.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1778 May 23 | 3p. | ||
Blames a cabal against him for leaving his commission. | ||||
Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1778 June 18 | 2p. | ||
Page, Mann.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1778 June 23 | 1p. | ||
Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794.
ALS Cy to George Washington | 1778 June 24 | 1p. | ||
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de, 1757-1834.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1778 July 2 | 2p. | ||
Page, John, 1744-1808.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1778 July 10 | 2p. | ||
Congratulations on departure of British from Philadelphia. | ||||
Wythe, George, 1726-1806.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1778 Aug. 1 | 1p. | ||
Washington, George (1732-1799).
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1778 Aug. 10 | 4p. | ||
Re: Col. Spotswood. | ||||
Pulaski, Kazimierz, 1747-1779.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1778 Aug. 13 | 1p. | ||
Seeking Lee's support against false accusations made against Pulaski. | ||||
De Kalb, Johann, 1721-1780.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1778 Aug. 17 | 2p. | ||
Lee, William, 1739-1795.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1778 Sept. 21 | 2p. | ||
Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1778 Sept. 23 | 4p. | ||
Washington, George (1732-1799).
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1778 Sept. 23 | 2p. | ||
Paper money. "The designs of the Enemy, to me, are mysterious -- indeed totally incomprehensible..." | ||||
Page, John, 1744-1808.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1778 Oct. 15 | 4p. | ||
Lee, William, 1739-1795.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1778 Oct. 17 | 4p. | ||
Diplomatic efforts in Germany. | ||||
Whipple, William, 1730-1785.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1778 Nov. 8 | 2p. | ||
Access digital object: | ||||
Lovell, James, 1737-1814.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1778 Dec. 10 | 2p. | ||
Lovell, James, 1737-1814.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1778 Dec. 18 | 4p. | ||
United States. Congress.
Cy to Great Britain. Commissioners | ca.1778 | 1p. | ||
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de, 1757-1834.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1779 Jan. 7 | 2p. | ||
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de, 1757-1834.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1779 Oct. 7 | 3p. | ||
McKean, Thomas, 1734-1817.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1779 March 25 | 4p. | ||
Political machinations in Congress since Lee's departure and Franklin's against Arthur Lee. | ||||
Holker, John, 1719-1786.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1779 April 5 | 2p. | ||
Reed, Joseph, 1741-1785.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1779 April 15 | 4p. | ||
Holker, John, 1719-1786.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1779 April 22 | 1p. | ||
Washington, George (1732-1799).
LS to Richard Henry Lee | 1779 May 5 | 1p. | ||
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de, 1757-1834.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1779 June 13 | 3p. | ||
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1779 June 17 | 2p. | ||
Other Descriptive Information: Film 199 Frame 68 | ||||
Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1779 June 22 | 2p. | ||
Lovell, James, 1737-1814.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1779 Aug. 17 | 4p. | ||
Whipple, William, 1730-1785.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1779 Aug. 23 | 2p. | ||
Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1779 Aug. 31 | 4p. | ||
Whipple, William, 1730-1785.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1779 Sept. 18 | 2p. | ||
Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1779 Sept. 28 | 2p. | ||
Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1779 Oct. 12 | 2p. | ||
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de, 1757-1834.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1779 Dec. 13 | 1p. | ||
Lee, William, 1739-1795.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1780 Aug. 15 | 2p. | ||
Lovell, James, 1737-1814.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1780 Aug. 31 | 1p. | ||
Adams, Samuel.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1781 Jan. 15 | 2p. | ||
Grasse, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, Comte de, 1722-1788.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1781 Feb. 8 | 1p. | ||
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1781 March 10 | 3p. | ||
Re: Steuben and militia. Other Descriptive Information: Film 199 Frame 69 | ||||
Weedon, George.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1781 June 15 | 2p. | ||
Defences in Virginia. | ||||
Weedon, George.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1781 Aug. 2 | 2p. | ||
McKean, Thomas, 1734-1817.
ALS to Arthur Lee | 1781 Sept. 4 | 2p. | ||
Weedon, George.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1781 Sept. 20 | 1p. | ||
Grasse, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, Comte de, 1722-1788.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1781 Oct. 29 | 1p. | ||
In French. | ||||
Whipple, William, 1730-1785.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1783 Sept. 15 | 2p. | ||
Monroe, James, 1758-1831.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1783 April 4 | 3p. | ||
Whipple, William, 1730-1785.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1783 April 17 | 2p. | ||
Washington, George (1732-1799).
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1784 June 12 | 2p. | ||
"Unsolicited by, and unknown to Mr. Paine, I take the liberty of hinting the services, and distressed (for so I think it may be called) situation of that Gentleman." | ||||
Floridablanca, José de Moñino y Redondo, Conde de, 1728-1808.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1784 Oct. 8 | 2p. | ||
On verso Richard Henry Lee ALS Cy to Floridablanca, 1785 Oct. 6. Regarding future of Spanish-American relations. | ||||
Adams, Samuel.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1784 Dec. 9 | 1p. | ||
Washington, George (1732-1799).
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1784 Dec. 14 | 4p. | ||
Re: Treaty of Fort Stanwix. "These people [the Iroquois] have given I think all that the United States could reasonably have asked of them -- more perhaps than the state of New York conceive ought to have been required from them, by any other than their own Legislature." | ||||
Adams, Samuel.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1784 Dec. 23 | 4p. | ||
"By God's Blessing on the Councils and the Arms of our Country, we are now ran'k with Nations. May they keep us from exulting beyond Measure! Great Pains are tyet to be taken and much Wisdom is requisite that we may stand as a Nation in a respectable Character. Better it would have been for us to have fallen in our highly famed Struggle for our Rights, or even to have remain'd in our ignoble State of Bondage hoping for better Times, than now to become a contemptible Nation." | ||||
Washington, George (1732-1799).
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1785 Feb. 8 | 8p. | ||
Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1785 Feb. 28 | 1p. | ||
Regarding an act to incorporate the Episcopal Church, separation of church and state. | ||||
Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1785 March 7 | 1p. | ||
Washington, George (1732-1799).
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1785 March 15 | 3p. | ||
Ohio lands; Shawnees. | ||||
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de, 1757-1834.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee(?) | 1785 March 16 | 2p. | ||
Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1785 April 18 | 2p. | ||
Adams, John, 1735-1826.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1785 April 29 | 3p. | ||
Washington, George (1732-1799).
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1785 June 22 | 3p. | ||
Adams, John, 1735-1826.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1785 July 15 | 4p. | ||
Critique of American policy toward Britain. | ||||
Washington, George (1732-1799).
to A Gentleman of Virginia | 1785 July 19 | 3p. | ||
Regarding rights of navigation of the Mississippi River. | ||||
Washington, George (1732-1799).
ALS to unidentified recipient | 1785 Aug. 22 | 3p. | ||
Adams, John, 1735-1826.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1785 Sept. 6 | 4p. | ||
Monroe, James, 1758-1831.
ALS to unidentified recipient | 1786 May 24 | 3p. | ||
Adams, Samuel.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1787 Dec. 3 | 2p. | ||
Abstract: Two page letter from Adams to Lee. Access digital object: | ||||
Chase, Samuel, 1741-1811.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1789 July 2 | 3p. | ||
Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1789 Feb. 9 | 2p. | ||
Sullivan, James.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1789 April 11 | 3p. | ||
Adams, Samuel.
LS to Richard Henry Lee | 1789 April 22 | 2p. | ||
Adams, Samuel.
LS to Richard Henry Lee | 1789 July 14 | 2p. | ||
Re: federal versus state balance. | ||||
Washington, George (1732-1799).
ALS to Richard Henry Lee | 1789 Aug. 2 | 2p. | ||
Adams, Samuel.
LS to Richard Henry Lee | 1789 Aug. 24 | 3p. | ||
Adams, Samuel.
LS to Richard Henry Lee | 1789 Aug. 24 | 3p. | ||
Jones, William.
ALS to Arthur Lee | 1790 Oct. 14 | 1p. | ||
Jones, William.
ALS to Arthur Lee | 1790 Nov. 7 | 1p. | ||
Jay, John, 1745-1829.
ALS to Richard Henry Lee, Jr. | 1823 Feb. 12 | 3p. | ||
Memories of events of 1774. | ||||
Unidentified.
Fortifications of Boston Neck by the British | ca.1775 | 1 map, 39.5 x 32.1 cm | ||
The cartographer is thought to be John Trumball. Physical & technical details: Oversized. |