1To George Washington from Richard Bland Lee, 23 November 1787 (Washington Papers)
I recieved your Excellency’s letter of the 11th Instant to day inclosing one guinea & an half on account of the ram Lamb —As no expence was incurred by me in having him brought to this town permit me to return the half guinea which has been sent on account of charges & beleive me to be with the highest esteem—Your Excellency’s most Ob. & hum. Servant ALS , PHi : Gratz Collection; Sprague...
2To George Washington from Richard Bland Lee, 25 March 1788 (Washington Papers)
After what passed between your Excellency and Col. Lee, and our subsequent conversation touching my undertaking to write a memoir of the events of the late revolution, for some time past you may have expected my determination: and undoubtedly I should have written to you long ago, if I could have removed those struggles in my mind, which were excited by the grandeur of the subject, and the...
3To George Washington from Richard Bland Lee, 3 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed letter from R. M. Scott will explain to you his wishes. he has requested me to deliver it to you and informed me of his object. As to his qualifications to fill the office which he solicits I will not pretend to judge I can assure you that he has always given the fullest satisfaction to Mr Charles Lee his Principal and all persons having business at the Naval office since he has...
4To George Washington from Richard Bland Lee, 28 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
The above letter was written under the impression that the Bill for collecting the impost would have passed within a few days after its date—and in the form in which it was reported by the committee appointed to prepare it. But the delays which have impeded it’s passage and the changes made in it’s form have prevented me from making the communication then intended till the present moment—and...
5To George Washington from Richard Bland Lee, 9 September 1789 (Washington Papers)
At the request of Mr Roger West I take the Liberty of forwarding the inclosed letter: at the same time I beg leave to present to you the most respectful regards of Mr Francis Corbin, who requests me to inform you that Mr John Segar, would be happy to be appointed Surveyor in the place of Mr Stage Davis, who has or will resign, and to assure you that he is well fitted to execute the duties of...
6To George Washington from Richard Bland Lee, 20 May 1795 (Washington Papers)
Having been informed by a friend of Mr Alexander White of Frederick Virginia that he would be inclined to supply the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Mr Carroll as one of the Commissioners of the city of Washington, you will be pleased to excuse the liberty I take of communicating the circumstance to you being with sentiments of most thorough esteem & devotion yr most obt Servant ALS ,...
7To George Washington from Richard Bland Lee, 18 October 1798 (Washington Papers)
Genl Lee having intimated to me that you had informed him that my name stood on a list of candidates, in your possession for military appointments, it seems incumbent on me to explain to you the manner & motives of my application. When the prospect of a war with France seemed inevitable and the government judged it expedient to make provisional arrangements to meet such an event I was...