1From John Jay to George Alexander Otis, 31 July 1820 (Jay Papers)
On the 22 d . Inst. I rec d . your Letter of the 15 th . enclosing a Copy of your Proposals for publishing by Subscription your Translation of “Botta’s History of the War of American Independence”— and also the first volume of that work— They arrived at a Time when a more than ordinary Degree of Sickness had rendered both reading and writing irksome to me— Being at present less unwell, I will...
2From John Jay to George Alexander Otis, 27 May 1822 (Jay Papers)
It gave me pleasure to find ^from your Letter of the 19 th Feb y —^ that my Remarks on certain Passages in the first Volume of Botta’s History had been communicated to, and approved by, M r Adams and M r . Jefferson. I On have read all the ^reading that & the other^ Volumes, and have [?] I met with its additional Passages of which I doubted the accuracy— In compliance with your Request, I...