Charles Lee, A.L.S. Philadelphia March 15th 1779 : to William Henry Drayton

Charles Lee, A.L.S. Philadelphia March 15th 1779 : to William Henry Drayton

Philadelphia 1779

[3] p. on 2 conjugate leaves ; 32 cm.

MSS L2011F32

Vituperative letter written by Lee to his longtime nemesis, William Henry Drayton of South Carolina. Drayton had apparently brought up Lee’s court martial in an attack on him, to which Lee responded "... you are as malignant a scoundrel as you are universally allow’d to be a ridiculous and disgusting coxcomb. You are pleas’d to say that I am legally disgraced, all I shall say in reply is that I am able confidently to pronounce that every man of rank in the whole Army who was present at the trail, every man out of the Army, every man on the continent who has read the proceedings of the Court Martial… is of the opinion that the stigma is not on him whom has passed but on those who pass’d this absurd iniquitous and preposterous sentence …"
Half portion of 2nd leaf excised, not affecting text.
Repaired and silked.

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