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Thomas Jefferson to John Page, June 3, 1779
[Williamsburg, 3 June 1779] Dear Page I received your letter by Mr. Jamieson. It had given me much pain that the zeal of our respective friends should ever have placed…
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John Page to Thomas Jefferson, June 2, 1779
Wmsburg June the 2d. 1779 My dear Jefferson I would have waited on you to congratulate you on your Appointment yesterday had I not been under an Engagement to return…
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Thomas Jefferson to Virginia Assembly, June 2, 1779
[2 June 1779] Gentlemen The honour which the General Assembly have been pleased to confer on me, by calling me to the high office of Governour of this commonwealth, demands…
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Richard Henry Lee to Thomas Jefferson, May 22, 1779
Philadelphia May 22. 1779 Dear Sir I have paid due attention to your favor of April the 21st., and I believe there would have been no difficulty in obtaining what…
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William Fleming to Thomas Jefferson, May 22, 1779
Philadelphia, 22d. May 1779. Dear Sir I promised myself the satisfaction of receiving letters from some of my friends by the express who brought the distressing account of the enemy’s…
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Edmund Pendleton to Thomas Jefferson, May 11, 1779
Edmundsbury May 11. 1779. Dr. Sir The difficulty of conveying letters across the Countrey and some hopes of seing you in the City the first of April, are but poor,…
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William Fleming to Thomas Jefferson, May 10, 1779
Philadelphia, 10th May, 1779. Dear Sir I wish it were in my power to write you satisfactorily on the state of our public affairs. My residence here is of too…
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Richard Henry Lee to Thomas Jefferson, May 3, 1779
Philadelphia May the 3d. 1779 Dear Sir Always attentive to your commands, I have obtained here, and now inclose you the song and the receipt you desired. I once had…
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Thomas Jefferson to William Phillips, April 1, 1779
[April? 1779] I should have been very happy to have seen you yesterday as I shall be at all times when you can make it convenient to call on us.…
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Thomas Jefferson to Gabriel Jones, April 29, 1779
Monticello, April 29th, 1779. Dear Sir By Mrs. Harvey I enclose to you the principal and interest of the money you were so kind as to lend me some years…