Letters to Richard Henry Lee [manuscript], 1767-1769.

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Letters to Richard Henry Lee [manuscript], 1767-1769.

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Letters, 1767-1769, from Edmund Jenings, London, Eng., to Richard Henry Lee, regarding a portrait of Lord Camden by Benjamin West and a portait of William Pitt by Charles Willson Peale, both represented with legal implements to be displayed in the courthouse for Westmoreland County, Va. There are mentions of Charles Peale's origins as a saddler in Maryland, to the recent American crisis, and American wool.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794

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Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732 – June 19, 1794) was an American statesman and Founding Father from Virginia, best known for the June 1776 Lee Resolution, the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great Britain leading to the United States Declaration of Independence, which he signed. He also served a one-year term as the president of the Continental Congress, was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation, and was a United States Senator fro...

West, Benjamin, 1738-1820

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American-born artist who was a charter member of the Royal Academy. From the description of ADS, 1819 November 12 : Kings Warehouse Customs, London. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 16853753 American historical painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to "Sir", a gentleman with whose family his "friend and Relation Joshua Gilpin" is forming a connection in marriage, 1800 Jun. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 2705...

Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778

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English statesman. From the description of Letter signed : [London], to an unidentified correspondent, 1760 Apr. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270891755 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Charles Townshend, 1761 Sept. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270623045 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to [Lord Sackville], 1758 Nov. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270623042 From the description of Autog...

Jenings, Edmund, 1731-1819

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Political writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to an unidentified recipient, 1766 Jul. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270487901 Pamphleteer of London, Eng.; close friend to John Adams. From the description of Letters to Richard Henry Lee [manuscript], 1767-1769. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647863610 ...

Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827

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Philadelphia painter and naturalist. From the description of ALS : Philadelphia, to David Porter, 1823 Nov. 30. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 86165786 Charles Willson Peale was an artist and naturalist. From the description of Sketchbook, 1801. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173465905 From the description of Portrait list, [ca. 1772]. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122439811 From the descrip...

Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794

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Lord Chancellor. From the description of Autograph letter signed, in the third person : Lincoln's Inn Fields, to Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore, 1773 May 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870477 ...