From John Jay to John Lowell Jr., 20 May 1822
To John Lowell Jr.
Bedford WChester County 20 May 1822
Dr Sir
It gratifies me to find from your kind ^obliging^ Letter of the 4th. Inst,1 that the Esteem and Regard manifested for me by your excellent Father,2 has descended to a Son so worthy of him—
In my opinion the Pamphlet which you had the Goodness to send me, does Honor to the writer ^author^; and it is [illegible] and [illegible] the judi cious ^his^ Remarks [illegible] respecting the Treaty of 1794—appear to me to be judicious.
The Malevolence to which you allude, was not unexpected almost every History, ancient & modern, records Examples of it; and particularly those of Greece & Rome— It is an Evil from which no Country has been, or ever will be free—
Accept my thanks for the [illegible] Reflection [illegible] ^Pleasure I derived from^ your Letter has given [illegible]; and be assured that the Health & Prosperity of yourself & Family will always ^not cease to^ be interesting to Your Frd.
J. J.
John Lowell Esqr Oxbury ^Roxbury^ near Boston
Dft, NNC (EJ: 08786). John Lowell Jr. (1769–1840), of Roxbury, lawyer, author, and president of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture.
1. See John Lowell Jr. to JJ, 4 May 1822, ALS, NNC (EJ: 13066), concerning a text by diplomat Alexander Hill Everett (1792–1847), author of Europe, or, A general survey of the present situation of the principal powers with conjectures on their future prospects (Boston, 1822). Everett would later become editor of the North American Review. See also the editorial note “Jay, History, and Memory,” above.
2. John Lowell, jurist.