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=== David Wooster ===
 
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*[[David Wooster to the Continental Congress, referred to Wythe & Committee, 11 February 1776]], ''The Papers of the Continental Congress 1774-1789'', ed. John P. Butler (Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1978), M247, r179, i161, p265.
 
*[[David Wooster to the Continental Congress, referred to Wythe & Committee, 11 February 1776]], ''The Papers of the Continental Congress 1774-1789'', ed. John P. Butler (Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1978), M247, r179, i161, p265.
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== Letters Regarding Wythe ==
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*[[Memoir of the Author#Page_xxxii|Henry Clay to B.B. Minor, 3 May 1851]], in George Wythe, Decisions of Cases In Virginia, By the High Court Chancery, with Remarks Upon Decrees By the Court of Appeals, Reversing Some of Those Decisions (Richmond, Virginia: J.W. Randolph, 1852), xxxii.
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*[[Jefferson-DuVal Correspondence]], 12 letters between June 4 and December 10, 1806, in ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827'', (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 314-319, ''available at'' [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib016175].
  
 
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*[[Wythe Oath Document, 17 June 1799]], in ''Howe’s Virginia'', (Archives & Manuscripts, The New York Public Library, 2014), ''available at'' [http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bf9cc762-79ed-8c19-e040-e00a18060263].
 
*[[Wythe Oath Document, 17 June 1799]], in ''Howe’s Virginia'', (Archives & Manuscripts, The New York Public Library, 2014), ''available at'' [http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bf9cc762-79ed-8c19-e040-e00a18060263].
  
*[[Last Will and Testament|The Last Will and Testament with Codicil of George Wythe, 11 June 1806]], in ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827'', (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 314-319, ''available at'' [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page036.db&recNum=313].   
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*[[Last Will and Testament|The Last Will and Testament with Codicil of George Wythe, 11 June 1806]], in ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827'', (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 314-319, ''available at'' [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib016255].   
  
*[[Notes for the Biography of George Wythe|Biographical Notes on George Wythe by Thomas Jefferson, 31 August, 1820]], in ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827'', (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 217-19, ''available at'' [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page052.db&recNum=216].
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*[[Notes for the Biography of George Wythe|Biographical Notes on George Wythe by Thomas Jefferson, 31 August, 1820]], in ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827'', (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 217-19, ''available at'' [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib023877].

Revision as of 12:33, 22 January 2014

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

Samuel Adams

William Alexander, Lord Stirling

Joseph Blewer

Robert Carter

George Rogers Clark

Nicholas Cooke

Tim Danielson

Alexander Donald

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 [5].
  • 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 [6].

Thomas Greenough

John Hancock

Benjamin Harrison

Moses Hazen

Patrick Henry

Samuel Huntington

John Jay

Thomas Jefferson

Joseph Jones

Henry Laurens

Richard Henry Lee

Christopher Leffingwell

Abraham Livingston

James Madison

George Mason

Philip Mazzei

James Mercer

Richard Montgomery

George Morgan

Robert C. Nicholas

John Norton

John Hatley Norton

William Paulding

Edmund Pendleton

Beverley Randolph

Edmund Randolph

Philip Schuyler

Peter Simon

Charles Thomson

Jonathan Trumbull

St. George Tucker

James Warren

George Washington

Nathaniel Woodhull

David Wooster

Letters Regarding Wythe

  • Henry Clay to B.B. Minor, 3 May 1851, in George Wythe, Decisions of Cases In Virginia, By the High Court Chancery, with Remarks Upon Decrees By the Court of Appeals, Reversing Some of Those Decisions (Richmond, Virginia: J.W. Randolph, 1852), xxxii.
  • Jefferson-DuVal Correspondence, 12 letters between June 4 and December 10, 1806, in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1 General Correspondence 1651-1827, (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1974), images 314-319, available at [84].

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 [85].