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*[[Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, & Francis Lightfoot Lee to Patrick Henry]], 17 September 1776, in ''Letters to Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789, Vol. 5'', ed. Paul H. Smith (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976), 190.
 
*[[Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, & Francis Lightfoot Lee to Patrick Henry]], 17 September 1776, in ''Letters to Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789, Vol. 5'', ed. Paul H. Smith (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976), 190.
 
*[[Wythe et al. to Patrick Henry(?), 7 November 1776]], in ''Letters to Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789, Vol. 5'', ed. Paul H. Smith (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976), 451.
 
*[[Wythe et al. to Patrick Henry(?), 7 November 1776]], in ''Letters to Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789, Vol. 5'', ed. Paul H. Smith (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976), 451.
 
=== Samuel Huntington ===
 
*[[Joseph Jones to George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, & Edmund Pendleton (draft), circ. 16? April 1781]], in ''Letters to Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789, Vol. 17'', ed. Paul H. Smith (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976), 158.
 
  
 
=== Thomas Jefferson ===
 
=== Thomas Jefferson ===
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*[[Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1800]], in ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827'', (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 209, ''available at'' [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page022.db&recNum=208].   
 
*[[Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1800]], in ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827'', (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 209, ''available at'' [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page022.db&recNum=208].   
 
*[[Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1800]], in ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827'', (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 232, ''available at'' [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page022.db&recNum=231].   
 
*[[Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1800]], in ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827'', (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 232, ''available at'' [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page022.db&recNum=231].   
*[[Wythe to Jefferson, memorandum correspondence, 7 December 1800]], in ''The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton, 1734-1803 Vol. II'', ed. David John Mays (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1967), 687-92. 
 
 
*[[Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 8 December 1800]], in ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827'', (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 600-03, ''available at'' [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page022.db&recNum=599].   
 
*[[Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 8 December 1800]], in ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827'', (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 600-03, ''available at'' [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page022.db&recNum=599].   
 
*[[Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 19 June 1801]], in ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827'', (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 1155, ''available at'' [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page023.db&recNum=1154].   
 
*[[Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 19 June 1801]], in ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827'', (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), image 1155, ''available at'' [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page023.db&recNum=1154].   
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=== George Mason ===
 
=== George Mason ===
 
*[[Mason to Wythe, 14 June 1777]], in ''The Papers of George Mason 1725-1792 Vol. I'', (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1970), 345.
 
*[[Mason to Wythe, 14 June 1777]], in ''The Papers of George Mason 1725-1792 Vol. I'', (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1970), 345.
*[[George Mason, Thomas Jefferson, & George Wythe to George Rogers Clark, 3 January 1778]], in ''The Papers of George Mason 1725-1792 Vol. I'', (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1970), 409-10.
 
  
 
=== George Morgan ===
 
=== George Morgan ===
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*[[Wythe to John Hatley Norton, 4 December 1785]], ''John Norton & Sons Merchants of London and Virginia'', ed. Frances Norton Mason (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1937), 471-72.
 
*[[Wythe to John Hatley Norton, 4 December 1785]], ''John Norton & Sons Merchants of London and Virginia'', ed. Frances Norton Mason (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1937), 471-72.
 
*[[Wythe to John Hatley Norton, 22 February 1786]], ''John Norton & Sons Merchants of London and Virginia'', ed. Frances Norton Mason (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1937), 472-73.
 
*[[Wythe to John Hatley Norton, 22 February 1786]], ''John Norton & Sons Merchants of London and Virginia'', ed. Frances Norton Mason (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1937), 472-73.
 
=== John Page ===
 
*[[Wythe, William Ellergy & Committee on Clothing to Nicholas Cooke, 11 October 1776]], in ''Letters to Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789, Vol. 5'', ed. Paul H. Smith (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976), 334.
 
  
 
=== Edmund Pendleton ===
 
=== Edmund Pendleton ===

Revision as of 15:02, 13 September 2013

Although his lecture notes from his teaching days at William & Mary were in still in existence in 1810, no collection of George Wythe's papers or correspondence has survived to the present day. Instead, the list below derives from Wythe's contemporaries. As a leader of the Revolution, Wythe exchanged correspondence with many of the notable men of his time and it is from their papers that we piece together the Chancellor's collection.

Letters

John Adams

George Rogers Clark

Nicholas Cooke

Benjamin Franklin

  • Wythe to Franklin, 23 June 1766, in The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 13: January 1, 1766 through December 31, 1766, eds. Leonard W. Labaree et al. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1969), 321, available at [2].
  • Wythe to Franklin, 6 September 1777, in The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 24: May 1, 1777 through September 30, 1777, eds. William B. Willcox et al. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1984), 506, available at [3].

Patrick Henry

Thomas Jefferson

Joseph Jones

Richard Henry Lee

James Madison

George Mason

George Morgan

Robert C. Nicholas

John Norton

John Hatley Norton

Edmund Pendleton

Charles Thomson

James Warren

George Washington

Nathaniel Woodhull

Papers

  • “Land Title Opinion,” 15 December 1773, George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799: Series 4 General Correspondences, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1999), images 25-27, available at [67].