When I had the honour of Meeting You and M r . Blair at New York, in order to deliberate on the ensuing Circuits, I was entirely unapprized that any general question was to be put, whether there should be a rotation at all until the moment when it was proposed, and I confess it was so unexpected by me, and I saw it lead to such distressing consequences to myself, that I had it not in my power...
2To John Jay from James Iredell, 21 January 1794 (Jay Papers)
It is with the most sensible mortification that I have to inform you of the disappointment of my expectation of attending at the Supreme Court in February, at which time I was extremely anxious to attend on account of the variety of important business which probably will then come on, and of the novel and peculiar nature of a part of it. I accordingly set off so early as the 14 th ., but was...