1From John Jay to Maria Jay Banyer, 23[–24] April 1810 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . your Letter of the 17 Inst:— The Cold you mention has gone off; and I am again much as I have been throughout the Winter— I rejoice that your Health has mended, and that Sally was well. It will give you Pleasure to be informed that on the 17 Inst. Mary was delivered of a Daughter, & that they were both doing will. That Peter should be nominated for Congress, is an agreable...
2From John Jay to Maria Jay Banyer, 14 June 1815 (Jay Papers)
Sally is still here and quite as well as when she came; so that her Jaunt to NYork has been postponed, and we have not as yet concluded when it shall take place. On Saturday she rec d . a Letter from you; from which it appears that you had rec d . mine which contained certain Hints in the Propriety of which you agree in opinion with me. Whether it would be adviseable to make the Propositions...
3From John Jay to Maria Jay Banyer, 2[–3] February 1813 (Jay Papers)
Altho’ I have nothing interesting to communicate, yet I will not let the Mail go without a few Lines to you. I have rec d . your Letter of the 25 ult.— I feel very sensibly the affliction with with our Friend V. Schaack has been visited; and I greatly regret the Death of Judge Sedgwick— Such Events should make strong, but at the same time useful Impressions on our Minds. There have as yet been...
4From John Jay to Maria Jay Banyer, 27 February 1816 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . your Letter of the 19 th . Inst:— The Question you propose is not entirely free from Difficulties but this ^as^ you are apprized of these, they need not be enumerated — Various Considerations and Circumstances, too apparent & well known to require being specefied, made it just and proper that the Provision for you should not have been parsimonious. Whether this Error was...
5From John Jay to Maria Jay Banyer, 3 January 1812 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . your Letter of the 24 Ult; and am pleased to find you are pursuing the course you mention. Cheerfulness promotes Health, and Health promotes Cheerfulness. We are so formed, that when one part suffers, the Rest, whether corporeal or mental, are in a Degree affected by it. Hence it is the more proper that we should attend to every Indisposition, and to whatever may aggravate or...
6From John Jay to Maria Jay Banyer, 8 May 1810 (Jay Papers)
I wrote to you a few Lines last week, but they were written in much Haste — We flattered ourselves with recieving Letters from you or Sally on Saturday last, but were disappointed. This I impute to negligence at one or other of the Post offices. The Disappointm t . was the greater, as we were and continue anxious to know whether we may expect the Pleasure of seeing you here this Month....
7From John Jay to Maria Jay Banyer, 30 March 1813 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . your Letter of the 22 d . Inst:— we are happy to learn that the Fever spread no further in your Family, and that you and Sally continue as well as usual. I hope a Trip to this place will conduce to the Health of you both— the most pleasant Season for it would you know be between the Middle of May and the middle of June. I wish you may have some person with you, to whom the...