1To John Jay from Peter Van Schaack, 21 February 1786 (Jay Papers)
I trouble you with this Letter, rather to gratify, by giving Expression to my own Feelings, than to communicate any Thing worthy of Your Notice. I have been in a State of anxious Suspense about a Matter agitated at New York in which you was a Party, for Want of the Publications, which have been neglected to be sent to me according to my Directions. At length I have seen them, and under the...