From John Jay to Peter Jay Munro, 20 July 1818
To Peter Jay Munro
Bedford—20 July—1818
Dear Peter
I have recd. your Letter of the 17 Inst1—and am pleased to find from it, that the Portrait2 of our excellent & common ancestor is so acceptable to you. Peter and William also have Copies of it. These Portraits will tend to remind us of our Consanguinity, and to cherish an habitual Disposition to mutual & cordial Attentions and good offices— such as you have manifested on sundry interesting occasions; and recently on a very distressing one.— My Love to Peggy and the Children. I am Dear Peter, your affte. uncle,
John Jay
Peter Jay Munro Esqr
2. JJ had copies made by painter John Wesley Jarvis (1781–1839) of Evert Duyckinck’s portrait of Augustus Jay, in addition to copies commissioned by PAJ of family portraits from the estate of Sir James Jay, done by Samuel Lovett Waldo (1783–1861). See William Pencak, “’Faithful Portraits of Our Hearts’: Images of the Jay Family, 1725–1814,” Early American Studies, 7 (Spring 2009), 82–108.