1To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 22 April 1794 (Jay Papers)
Yesterday I received y r . two kind letters of Saturday & Sunday. I do indeed judge of your feelings by my own & for that reason forebore writing while under the first impression of surprize & grief— Your superiority in fortitude as well as every other virtue I am aware of, yet I know too well your tenderness for your family to doubt the pangs of separation— Your own conflicts are sufficient:...
2To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, [18 April 1794] (Jay Papers)
Your letter of yesterday gave me reason to think that one from me w d . hardly reach you before you left Philadelphia from the one I’ve this inst t . received you think I may write how my d r . M r . Jay is it possible? The Utmost exertion I can make is to be silent— excuse me if I have not philosophy or Patriotism to do more— I heard of the nomination yesterday— so did the Children— the paper...
3To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 10[–12] June 1792 (Jay Papers)
On friday myself & the children had the pleasure of receiving your kind letters of the last of May and first of June, since which I hope you have rec d . two packets from me sent to Judge Marchant’s care by Cap tn . Peterson & Cap tn . Cahoon— I intended ^to^ send this by to-morrow’s post, but I have just heard that Cap tn . Peterson is again to sail out Tuesday, so that I think it best to...
4To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 4 June 1792 (Jay Papers)
I sent my packet for you yesterday to Cap tn . Cahoon, but as he does not sail until this day I send you Loudon’s paper which contains some farther accounts respecting the Otsego votes. It is M r . Jones’s opinion that the legality of them does not admit a question — The people of Otsego, alarmed at what they think are attempts to violate ^their^ rights have deputized Jacob Morris to come to...
5To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 2 June 1792 (Jay Papers)
I have had the pleasure of receiving your favor by M r . Alden & the one of the 23 d Ult. and thank you for them as well as for the kind allowance you make for the apparent silence on my part I say apparent because in reallity I had written; but the letter which M r . Dalton took charge of, I requested might be left with M r . Gore, least it might share the fate of one sent you at Exeter last...
6To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 23 May 1792 (Jay Papers)
by an accident I miss’d writing p r . the last post, which I regret as I fear it has occasioned your feeling anxious about us— The letter inclos’d in mine for M r . Pintard was delivered to a young gentleman at his house; he himself not being in town. I wrote you in my last by M r . Dalton that your brother Fred k . was married, but believe I did not mention that it was to Miss Dunscomb. It...
7To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 17 May 1792 (Jay Papers)
M r . Dalton has just left me; he sets out to morrow for Massachusetts, & is to take charge of this letter— We still are all well— Yesterday in Company I was told that your brother Fred k . had been married three weeks; I replied that I had not been inform’d of it— to-day P. Munro came here to let me know that it was a fact tho he had not had ^it^ from your brother. Peggy Munro & myself wish...
Our dear little Girl being now in a sweet slumber, & the house all quiet, I will endeavor to employ some of my lonely sleepless moments in continuing an account of her situation. You know I wrote you by the last Post, which was on Wednesday evening; on thursday the Doct r . gave her more mercury, & finding her on friday considerably salivated desisted, and, tho’ her throat still continued...
9To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 14 November 1790 (Jay Papers)
Last thursday evening Gov r . Langdon waited upon me to give me tidings of you— he told me that himself & Lady had but just arrived & were to leave N. York on saturday— as I thought his early attention ^to me^ proceeded from his regard for you, I was solicitous to shew them civility in return; & therefore waited upon M rs . L[angdon] in the morning, & requested them to take tea & pass that...