1To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 6 November 1783 (Jay Papers)
This Even g . M r . & Miss Laurens favor’d me w th . their Company, and as they set out tomorrow for England I could not suffer them to go without a little token of my remembrance, & that they might be ennabled to give you an account of y r . little girls I sent for them down, & was not a little flatter’d by Miss Maria’s behaviour—she does not yet speak, but she improves in her health & looks....
2To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 11 December 1783 (Jay Papers)
The arrival of several posts without any letters from you, as seventeen days had elaps’d since the date of your last, had in spite of my endeavors to the contrary dejected my spirits; not that I thought you negligent, but because I feared some accident had prevented y r . writing: but last evening your letter of the 29 th . Ult. restored the tranquility of my mind, which had indeed been...
3To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 10 December 1784 (Jay Papers)
Since your letter of the 28 th . of Novb r ., I’ve not rec d . a single line from you; and tho’ I doubt not but your silence is constrain’d, yet for my life I cannot divest myself of a very disagreeable sensation upon the occasion.—half a doz. times at least have I sent upon the arrival of the Post for letters, & as often been disappointed.— When I wrote you last, Maria was still ill, tho’...
4To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 18 November 1783 (Jay Papers)
Last saturday I was so happy as to receive y r . kind letter of the 10 th . & 11 th . instant—from the number, I perceive that not one has miscarried— I hope before this you’ve receiv’d a letter from me ^ that was ^ intended for the post, tho’ by mistake detain’d too long, which D r . De Butts has promised Peter to take charge of— In my letter, favor’d by M r . Laurens, you have Abbe’s...
5To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 27 November 1783 (Jay Papers)
I had not rec d . a letter from you of a later date than the 14 th . ins t . until last evening, when y r . two letters of the 18 th . & 21 st . were handed me; but if my anxiety at your silence was banished, my mortification was increased, as I found you had reason to suppose me inattentive— I wrote you on the 12 th ., & Doc tr . De Butts took charge of the letter, & on the 20 th . I sent...
6To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 7 December 1783 (Jay Papers)
As I have written ^ wrote you three letters last week, I’ve ^ & having now ^ nothing ^ new to tell you, & therefore could ^ I might only ^
7To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 19 June 1788 (Jay Papers)
The morning we left you, we arriv’d at Eliz. Town after a pleasant passage and found our Parents in good health—the Children continue very well and I am myself much better than when I left N: York. By this time I suppose you have arrived at Poughkeepsie & arranged your affairs so as to be tollerably settled—the ride I flatter myself has been beneficial to you & hope to find from your letters...
Your letter of the 28 th . reached me last fryday; & from the date of that & y r . former letter I find that both were written at the same times, perhaps the same ins ts . that mine to you were wrote, & I enjoy’d the idea that we had been mutually employed in marking our attention to each other at ^ the ^ same ins t . of time. how happy for us my Love that Space seperates not the minds as well...