From John Jay to Eleazar Lord, 22 April 1816
To Eleazar Lord
Bedford 22 Ap. 1816
Sir
I recd. last week your Letter of the 2d. Inst., with the Pamphlets mentioned in it.1
Such has long been the State of my health, that I can neither read nor write much at a Time without Fatigue. the Subject of these papers being interesting, I shall peruse them gradually. Whether I shall be able to do more is at present uncertain.
Be pleased to present my acknowledgmts. to the Author of the Friend of Peace,2 for this obliging mark of attention; and accept my thanks for the Information conveyed by your Letter.
I shall desire my Son to add my Name to the List of Life Subscribers to the New York Sunday School Society—with the best Wishes that such Institutions may succeed and become general, I am Sir your obliged & obt Servt
Mr Eleazer Lord Secy to the Society Nassau Street no. 3
Dft, NNC (EJ: 08738).
1. Eleazar Lord to JJ, 2 Apr., not found
2. Noah Worcester (1758–1837), as “Philo Pacificus.” The Friend of Peace was a periodical published in Boston, starting in 1816.