1From John Jay to Beverly Robinson, 18 February 1823 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . your Letter of the 19 th . ult— and should have answered it sooner, had not the State of my Health confined my Attention to such affairs as would not admit of Delay. The Feeling which pervades your Letter, evinces that kind of Sensibility, which denotes the character and worth of the Heart; and it gives me pleasure to say, that its Impressions on mine are such as you wish them...