1To John Jay from John Tabor Kempe, 27 December 1771 (Jay Papers)
I have delayed an Answer to your Letter for some Hours, least I should forget what I owe to myself, and catch from you a Warmth or Indelicacy of Expression, which I might on Reflection think blameable.—This is the first Instance I ever met with of such an Address, and as I conceive it to be ^ entirely ^ without Foundation Provocation, I am the more astonished. I cannot charge myself with ever...