1To John Jay from Tench Coxe, 16 November 1791 (Jay Papers)
I do myself the honor to enclose to you an enlarged copy of the Examination of Lord Sheffield, which one of our printers was desirous to republish. You will perceive, in the interspersed and additional new matters, I have endeavoured to bring up such Ideas as would tend to answer the report of the British privy council contained in a letter which I requested M r . King to lay before you. In...
2To John Jay from Tench Coxe, 9 June 1794 (Jay Papers)
I have had the honor to write you twice since your departure from the United States. Congress have risen this day, and no act has been passed to interfere with the maintenance of peace at this Juncture. The new penal law, which was sincerely intended to restrain our citizens from conduct injurious to foreign nations, will no doubt be considered by them as a new proof of the reasonable and...
3To John Jay from Tench Coxe, 8 November 1794 (Jay Papers)
I have the honor to send you by way of letter a recent publication, which contains among other matter some of my ideas on the present state of our public affairs. If you can find time for a perusal of the work or even of all the text that follows the 379 th . page, and an inspection of the documents inserted in that part of the work, so far as you have not seen them, or the text, it may be of...
4I. Tench Coxe to John Jay, 25 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
An ingenious Artist of this City has informed me within a few days that he has made a discovery which has been for some time a desideratum both in Science and Commerce. It is connected with the Uniformity of weights and measures, and as that object has been refered to the Secretary of State whose Duties I presume you discharge till you enter on those of your judicial station I do myself the...