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=== Thomas Greenough ===
 
=== Thomas Greenough ===
 
*[[Thomas Greenough to Wythe, John Adams, & Silas Deane, 22 December 1775]], ''The Papers of the Continental Congress 1774-1789'', ed. John P. Butler (Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1978), M247, r95, i78, v10, p13.
 
*[[Thomas Greenough to Wythe, John Adams, & Silas Deane, 22 December 1775]], ''The Papers of the Continental Congress 1774-1789'', ed. John P. Butler (Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1978), M247, r95, i78, v10, p13.
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*[[Thomas Greenough to Wythe et al, 8 June 1776]], ''The Papers of the Continental Congress 1774-1789'', ed. John P. Butler (Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1978), M247, r80, i66, v1, p111.
  
 
=== John Hancock ===
 
=== John Hancock ===
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=== Benjamin Harrison ===
 
=== Benjamin Harrison ===
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*[[Wythe & Archibald Cary to Virginia Delegates, 23 May 1777]], ''The Papers of the Continental Congress 1774-1789'', ed. John P. Butler (Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1978), M332, r8, f875.
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*[[Wythe & Archibald Cary to Virginia Delegates, 4 June 1777]], ''The Papers of the Continental Congress 1774-1789'', ed. John P. Butler (Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1978), M332, r8, f876.
 
*[[Wythe and Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Harrison, 18 June 1779]], in ''Founders Online, National Archives'', ''available at'' [http://founders.archives.gov/?q=%20Author%3A%22Wythe%2C%20George%22&s=1111311111&r=14].   
 
*[[Wythe and Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Harrison, 18 June 1779]], in ''Founders Online, National Archives'', ''available at'' [http://founders.archives.gov/?q=%20Author%3A%22Wythe%2C%20George%22&s=1111311111&r=14].   
 
*[[Wythe & the Inhabitants of Williamsburg, VA to Benjamin Harrison, July 1783]], ''The Papers of the Continental Congress 1774-1789'', ed. John P. Butler (Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1978), M247, r60, i46, p89.
 
*[[Wythe & the Inhabitants of Williamsburg, VA to Benjamin Harrison, July 1783]], ''The Papers of the Continental Congress 1774-1789'', ed. John P. Butler (Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1978), M247, r60, i46, p89.
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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.
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=== Philip Mazzei ===
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*[[Wythe to Philip Mazzei, 10 August 1785]], ''The Pat and Jerry B. Epstein American History Document Collection'', ed. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, CWF, 2001), ''available at'' [http://cdm15933.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15933coll4/id/47].
  
 
=== Richard Montgomery ===
 
=== Richard Montgomery ===
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=== Charles Thomson ===
 
=== Charles Thomson ===
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*[[Charles Thomson to Wythe et al, 21 June 1785]], ''The Papers of the Continental Congress 1774-1789'', ed. John P. Butler (Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1978), M247, r25, i18A, p100.
 
*[[Charles Thomson to Wythe et al., 21 June 1785]], in ''Letters of Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789, Vol. 22'', ed. Paul H. Smith (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976), 470.
 
*[[Charles Thomson to Wythe et al., 21 June 1785]], in ''Letters of Delegates to Congress: 1774-1789, Vol. 22'', ed. Paul H. Smith (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976), 470.
  

Revision as of 15:00, 22 November 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

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 [4].
  • 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 [5].

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

Richard Montgomery

George Morgan

Robert C. Nicholas

John Norton

John Hatley Norton

William Paulding

Edmund Pendleton

Beverley Randolph

Philip Schuyler

Peter Simon

Charles Thomson

Jonathan Trumbull

Saint George Tucker

James Warren

George Washington

Nathaniel Woodhull

David Wooster

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 [79].