Scope and Contents A letter, dated June 19, 1839, from Richard [M Bourden or McBourden] in Hempstead County, Arkansas to James Lee in Williamsburg, Virginia. Enclosed newspaper clipping attached. [M Bourden] asks for a letter of recommendation from James Lee. Bourden says that he has been mistaken and apprehended in Arkansas for a murder committed in Tennessee by a Jefferson Blagg whose description matches his own. He asks Lee to write and to inform his family and to encourage them and others to...