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Henry Lee III papers

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-9
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0143
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a diary and three letters written by Henry Lee III; also included are three land grants and one military commission signed by Lee during his tenure as governor of Virginia.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1779 - 1813
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection consists of a diary and three letters written by Henry Lee III; also included are three land grants and one military commission signed by Lee during his tenure as governor of Virginia.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1779 - 1813
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Henry Lee III papers

Correspondence, 1779 - 1797

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Letters written by Henry Lee III

Dates: 1779 - 1797
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Henry Lee III papers

Henry Lee to Jeremiah Wadsworth, Esq., 1779-07-02

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the File:

Letters written by Henry Lee III

Dates: 1779-07-02
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Henry Lee III papers / Correspondence

Henry Lee to William Irvine, 1793-12-01

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the File:

Letters written by Henry Lee III

Dates: 1793-12-01
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Henry Lee III papers / Correspondence

Henry Lee to William Sullivan, 1797-04-16

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the File:

Letters written by Henry Lee III

Dates: 1797-04-16
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Henry Lee III papers / Correspondence

Commonplace book and diary, 1813

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection consists of a diary and three letters written by Henry Lee III; also included are three land grants and one military commission signed by Lee during his tenure as governor of Virginia.

Dates: 1813
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Henry Lee III papers

Commonplace book and diary transcript

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection consists of a diary and three letters written by Henry Lee III; also included are three land grants and one military commission signed by Lee during his tenure as governor of Virginia.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1779 - 1813
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Henry Lee III papers

Provenance and history of Henry Lee's commonplace book and diary

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

The diary was given to Henry Lee's son, General Robert E. Lee during the American Civil War by John H. Chandler of Westmoreland, Co. Va., a soldier of the 40th Virginia Infantry Regiment. Chandler received the diary from his father, who discovered it "in a bundle of old papers he had occassion to examine..." The original Civil War period letter accompanying th gifted diary is cataloged among the Robert E. Lee papers in WLU's archives.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1779 - 1813
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Henry Lee III papers

Land grant signed by Henry Lee as governor of Virginia, 1791-12-13

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Virginia land grant to John Camden and James Burk for land along the Piney River in what is now Nelson County, Va., though formerly of a part of Amherst and Albemarle.

Dates: 1791-12-13
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Henry Lee III papers

Two Land grants signed by Henry Lee as governor of Virginia, 1792-08-14, 1794-05-01

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

A land grant for Charles Irving along the Piney River in Amherst, now Nelson County, Va. A land grant for Benjamin Toleman, John Armentrout, William Hinton, and Daniel Frayley (Frailey) along Smith Creek in Rockingham County.

Dates: 1792-08-14; 1794-05-01
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Henry Lee III papers

Military Commission for Marquis Richardson, 1793-05

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

A Virginia militia commission for Marquis Richardson of Frederick County, Virginia for the rank of lieutenant of the 51st Virginia militia. The document is signed by Henry Lee when governor of Virginia.

Dates: 1793-05
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Henry Lee III papers

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