1From John Jay to Samuel Miller, 28 February 1800 (Jay Papers)
Accept my thanks for the Sermon on the Death of General Washington, which you was so obliging as to send me. In my opinion it abounds in excellent sentiments, well arranged and expressed. writing thus freely, I think it candid to observe, that in some instances Ideas are conveyed, which do not appear to me to be correct. such for instance, as “our glorious Emancipation from Britain.[”] The...