I should have troubled you a second time, & ^ have wrote you ^ by the last Post had I not entertained the hope that it would not be long before I should have the pleasure of acknowledging at least one favor from you. I have been disappointed, ’tis true, but still I will not relinquish the pleasing idea of being affectionately remembered by my beloved friend— To prevent future mortifications of...
2To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 18 February 1779 (Jay Papers)
I thank you my dear M r . Jay, for your kind letters of the 31 st . of Jan y . & 5 th . of Feb y .— be assurd the advice contain’d in them was as welcome as indeed it was requisite—continue your I beseech you y: r friendly admonitions, for really no one ever required that aid from friendship more than I do in my present circumstances. For am I not prevented from indulging the pleasing prospect...
3To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 21 January 1783 (Jay Papers)
Immediately upon the rec t . of your letter of the 18 th ., I sent to request the favor of M r . Whitford’s company a few minutes & communicated to him y r . sentiments of the horse. he promised to mount him & give me his opinion after the tryal, but as the signing the preliminary articles yesterday was an interesting event, he seem’d himself too much agitated to execute his intention— This...
4To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 6 November 1783 (Jay Papers)
This Even g . M r . & Miss Laurens favor’d me w th . their Company, and as they set out tomorrow for England I could not suffer them to go without a little token of my remembrance, & that they might be ennabled to give you an account of y r . little girls I sent for them down, & was not a little flatter’d by Miss Maria’s behaviour—she does not yet speak, but she improves in her health & looks....
5To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 18 November 1783 (Jay Papers)
Last saturday I was so happy as to receive y r . kind letter of the 10 th . & 11 th . instant—from the number, I perceive that not one has miscarried— I hope before this you’ve receiv’d a letter from me ^ that was ^ intended for the post, tho’ by mistake detain’d too long, which D r . De Butts has promised Peter to take charge of— In my letter, favor’d by M r . Laurens, you have Abbe’s...
6To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 27 November 1783 (Jay Papers)
I had not rec d . a letter from you of a later date than the 14 th . ins t . until last evening, when y r . two letters of the 18 th . & 21 st . were handed me; but if my anxiety at your silence was banished, my mortification was increased, as I found you had reason to suppose me inattentive— I wrote you on the 12 th ., & Doc tr . De Butts took charge of the letter, & on the 20 th . I sent...
7To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 7 December 1783 (Jay Papers)
As I have written ^ wrote you three letters last week, I’ve ^ & having now ^ nothing ^ new to tell you, & therefore could ^ I might only ^
8To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 11 December 1783 (Jay Papers)
The arrival of several posts without any letters from you, as seventeen days had elaps’d since the date of your last, had in spite of my endeavors to the contrary dejected my spirits; not that I thought you negligent, but because I feared some accident had prevented y r . writing: but last evening your letter of the 29 th . Ult. restored the tranquility of my mind, which had indeed been...
Your letter of the 28 th . reached me last fryday; & from the date of that & y r . former letter I find that both were written at the same times, perhaps the same ins ts . that mine to you were wrote, & I enjoy’d the idea that we had been mutually employed in marking our attention to each other at ^ the ^ same ins t . of time. how happy for us my Love that Space seperates not the minds as well...
10To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 10 December 1784 (Jay Papers)
Since your letter of the 28 th . of Novb r ., I’ve not rec d . a single line from you; and tho’ I doubt not but your silence is constrain’d, yet for my life I cannot divest myself of a very disagreeable sensation upon the occasion.—half a doz. times at least have I sent upon the arrival of the Post for letters, & as often been disappointed.— When I wrote you last, Maria was still ill, tho’...
11To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 19 June 1788 (Jay Papers)
The morning we left you, we arriv’d at Eliz. Town after a pleasant passage and found our Parents in good health—the Children continue very well and I am myself much better than when I left N: York. By this time I suppose you have arrived at Poughkeepsie & arranged your affairs so as to be tollerably settled—the ride I flatter myself has been beneficial to you & hope to find from your letters...
12To 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...
13To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, [28 November] 1790 (Jay Papers)
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...
14To 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...
15To 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...
16To 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...
17To 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...
18To 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...
19To 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...
20To 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:...
21To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 2 March 1802 (Jay Papers)
I think it will give you pleasure to hear from us, even tho’ nothing new has occur’d. To tell you that the storm began here on Sunday evening the 31 st . & that it has continued ever since with the intermission of only a single day would I am sure be to tell you what you already know to your own disappointment. As James expected to have you to Rye the Monday after you left home, he engaged...