1From John Jay to Rufus King, 8 October 1818 (Jay Papers)
On Friday last M rs . Hamilton favored us with a Visit.— Speaking of Doct r . Mason, she observed that the State of his Health not permitting him to write the Life of General Hamilton, she had received from him the Papers which had been put into his hands for that purpose.— She expressed her Desire to have the Life written, and remarked in Substance, that she knew of no Person who was both so...