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=== John Adams ===
 
=== John Adams ===
 
*[[Wythe to Adams, 5 December 1783]], in ''Papers of John Adams Vol. 15'', (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977), 396.
 
*[[Wythe to Adams, 5 December 1783]], in ''Papers of John Adams Vol. 15'', (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977), 396.
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=== Samuel Adams ===
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*[[Wythe to Samuel Adams, 1 August 1778]], in ''George Wythe: Teacher of Liberty'', Alonzo Thomas Dill (Williamsburg, VA: Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission, 2014), 31.
  
 
=== William Alexander, Lord Stirling ===
 
=== William Alexander, Lord Stirling ===
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=== Robert Carter ===
 
=== Robert Carter ===
 
*[[Wythe to Robert Carter, 11 June 1771]], in ''Heritage Auctioneers & Galleries, Inc.'', ''available at'' [http://historical.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=675&lotIdNo=27110].   
 
*[[Wythe to Robert Carter, 11 June 1771]], in ''Heritage Auctioneers & Galleries, Inc.'', ''available at'' [http://historical.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=675&lotIdNo=27110].   
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*[[Wythe to Robert Carter, 29 May 1772]], in ''The Members of the Continental Congress'', (Archives & Manuscripts, The New York Public Library, 2014), ''available at'' [http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b9f93b5d-f9e4-9cb5-e040-e00a1806459b].
  
 
=== George Rogers Clark ===
 
=== George Rogers Clark ===
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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 & 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].   
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*[[Wythe to Benjamin Harrison, 24 June 1783]], in ''The Signers of the Declaration of Independence, Virginia'', (Archives & Manuscripts, The New York Public Library, 2014), ''available at'' [http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bac0a75c-26b7-b981-e040-e00a18067fd9].
 
*[[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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=== Philip Mazzei ===
 
=== Philip Mazzei ===
 
*[[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].
 
*[[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].
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=== James Mercer ===
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*[[Wythe to James Mercer, June 1789]], in ''The Signers of the Declaration of Independence, Virginia'', (Archives & Manuscripts, The New York Public Library, 2014), ''available at'' [http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bac0a75c-26bb-b981-e040-e00a18067fd9].
  
 
=== Richard Montgomery ===
 
=== Richard Montgomery ===
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=== Edmund Pendleton ===
 
=== Edmund Pendleton ===
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*[[Wythe to Edmund Pendleton, 18 November 1776]], in ''The Declaration of Independence'', (Archives & Manuscripts, The New York Public Library, 2014), ''available at'' [http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ba0a2b02-ee54-b0df-e040-e00a18062abc].
 
*[[Pendleton to Wythe, memorandum, 3 March 1789]], in The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton, 1734-1803 Vol. II, ed. David John Mays (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1967), 553.
 
*[[Pendleton to Wythe, memorandum, 3 March 1789]], in The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton, 1734-1803 Vol. II, ed. David John Mays (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1967), 553.
  
 
=== Beverley Randolph ===
 
=== Beverley Randolph ===
 
*[[Wythe to Beverley Randolph, 3 March 1789]], in ''Signers of the Declaration of Independence in the DAR Americana Collection'', (National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, 2005), ''available at'' [http://www.dar.org/americana/signers/#img/George%20Wythe.jpg].   
 
*[[Wythe to Beverley Randolph, 3 March 1789]], in ''Signers of the Declaration of Independence in the DAR Americana Collection'', (National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, 2005), ''available at'' [http://www.dar.org/americana/signers/#img/George%20Wythe.jpg].   
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=== Edmund Randolph ===
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*[[Wythe to Edmund Randolph, 16 June 1787]], in ''The Federal Convention'', (Archives & Manuscripts, The New York Public Library, 2014), ''available at'' [http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bcf4e50c-ccfa-6423-e040-e00a18061eb6].
  
 
=== Philip Schuyler ===
 
=== Philip Schuyler ===

Revision as of 11:43, 14 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

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 [84].