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To John Jay from Peter Augustus Jay, 9 May 1823

From Peter Augustus Jay

New York 9 May 1823

My dear Father

We went very comfortably to Rye the Day we left you,1 and the next Day finding that no Stage passed toward New York, Aunt was so good as to send us to town in her chariot.2 Maria is certainly not worse for her ride.

The annual Meeting of the Bible Society was held yesterday,3 & your address was very well read by Dr Milnor.4 Mr Clinton5 moved a resolution for thanks to you, & did it very handsomely— Notwithstanding the wet weather the Meeting was more full than I have seen it on any former Occasion—

Redon has been taken & has employed a lawyer to defend him.6 But I have not seen him—

My Arabian Colt looks very well, & almost too fat. He is handsome but not equal to some other Colts of the same horse— nor will he be large. The Reply to the letter to the Bishop7 has not yet appeared. I have heard that it is to be published on Tuesday next. I fancy the letter has been found of very hard Digestion— Our Love to William & sisters— I am, my Dr father Your very Affectionate son

Peter Augustus Jay

John Jay Esqr

ALS, NNC (EJ: 06269).

1Probably early to mid-April. On 30 Mar. 1823, a hurricane-force storm with heavy snow struck the Northeast, rendering roads impassable for days. WJ reported of the first week of April that “the Bedford Stage has not run this week: on Wednesday it set out & after proceeding 4 miles, was obliged to turn back. The Mail was carried on horseback.” WJ to PAJ, 5 Apr. 1823, ALS, NyRyJHC. See also New-York American, 31 Mar. 1823.

2Aunt Polly.

4See JJ to PAJ, 21 Apr. 1823, above.

5DeWitt Clinton, also a vice-president of the ABS. See also JJ to MJB, 13 May 1823, below.

6Claudius Redon, who had left the Canal Street stable, returned to New York City. Redon was before the Common Council appealing his personal taxes, and was later declined. On 27 May 1823, he ran racehorse “Sir Archy, Junr.” at Union Course, Jamaica. Redon then opened United States Stables on Warren Street. Redon would switch careers to jeweler by 1828, and then relocate to New Orleans in 1830. See Washington Gazette, 21 Nov. 1822; City Gazette and Daily Advertiser (Charleston), 4 Feb. 1823; MCCNYC, 28 Apr. 1823 and 12 May 1823, 13: 34, 65–66; Evening Post (New York), 27 May 1823; Evening Post (New York), 6 Sept. 1823; Stephen G. C. Ensko, American Silversmiths and Their Marks III (New York, 1948), 108; Kit Gorman, New Orleans Gunsmiths & Gun Dealers Until 1900 (c. 2005); and Courier (New Orleans), 5 Jan. 1830.

7WJ and John Henry Hobart were engaged in a dispute via correspondence and pamphlets through 1823. See John Henry Hobart, An address, delivered to the annual convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the state of New York; held in St. Paul’s Church, in the city of Troy, on Tuesday, October 15th, and Wednesday, October 16, 1822 (New York, 1823); WJ, A letter to the Right Reverend Bishop Hobart, occasioned by the strictures on Bible societies, contained in his late charge to the Convention of New-York. by a churchman of the Diocess of New-York (New-York, 1823); Corrector [John Henry Hobart], A reply to a letter to the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart: occasioned by the strictures on Bible societies, contained in his late address to the convention of New-York, by a churchman of the diocese of New-York, in a letter to that gentleman (New York, 1823); WJ, A letter to the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart: in reply to the pamphlet addressed by him to the author under the signature of Corrector (New York, 1823); Corrector [Hobart], Reply to a letter addressed to the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart, by William Jay, in a letter to that gentleman (New York, 1823); WJ, A reply to a second letter to the author from the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart: with remarks on his hostility to Bible Societies, and his mode of defending it: and also on his vindication of the Reverend Mr. Norris’s late pamphlet (New York, 1823); [John Henry Hobart], A Note from Corrector to William Jay (New York, 1823). The earlier exchanges in print were anonymous. MJB reported to JJ the same day, that at the meeting of the ABS “it was evident that [attendees] had read the ’Letter’ … Some say an answer will appear in a few days, others that the Person to whom it is addressed does not mean to reply to it because it is anonymous.” MJB to JJ, 9 May 1823, ALS, NNC (EJ: 09767). For a contemporary analysis of the debate, favoring WJ, see “Review of Publications: [Letters of William Jay and Corrector, occasioned by Bishop Hobart’s Strictures on Bible Societies],” Quarterly Christian Spectator vol. 6 (1824), 36–51, 82–94, and 140–50.

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