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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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Letters from 1779
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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…
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George Rogers Clark to Patrick Henry, April 29, 1779
Kaskaskias Illinois Apl: 29th. 1779 Dr. Sir A few days ago I received certain intelligence of William Morris my express to you being killed near the falls of Ohio news…
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Thomas Jefferson to Richard Henry Lee, April 21, 1779
Monticello Apr. 21. 1779. Dear Sir Among the convention prisoners in this neighborhood is a Baron de Geismar of the Germans, brigade-major to Genl. Gall, whose situation I would wish…
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Samuel Stanhope Smith to Thomas Jefferson, April 19, 1779
Hampden-Sydney April 19th 1779 Sir I beg your pardon for having writen to you prematurely. I confess I had never seen the printed bill, and having waited for it a…