Further reading:

W. Hamilton Bryson, “Edmund Pendleton (1721-1803),” Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (2009).

Robert Leroy Hilldrup, The Life and Times of Edmund Pendleton (1939).

David J. Mays, Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803: A Biography, 2 vols. (1952).

J. Miller Thornton, “A Shield of Liberty: Pendleton’s and Roane’s Court of Appeals,” in Juries and Judges versus the Law: Virginia’s Provincial Perspective, 1783-1828 (1994).

Research collections:

David J. Mays, ed., The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton, 1734-1803, 2 vols. (1967).

Library of Virginia (Personal Papers Collection)
Richmond, Va.
Edmund Pendleton Letters, 1773-1800; 11 leaves (photostat copies).
Letters, 1773-1797, to George Washington (1732-1799), and a letter, June 17, 1800, to Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826); finding aid  available.