John Jay Papers

To John Jay from John Trumbull, 21 April 1794

From John Trumbull

New York 21st. April 1794

Sir

I have this moment receiv’d a Letter from my Brother, informing me of the honour you propose to me of attending you as your Secretary in your mission to London.—1

Nothing Sir could be more flattering to me or more agreeable to me in the present state of my personal as well as the public Affairs.— but how much Honor, (unexperienced as I am in business of this kind) I may do to my Country, to your Choice, or to myself: I know not.— if on this point, you are satisfied, I will only say that I am ready to obey your Orders. I am Sir with high Respect & Esteem Your obliged friend & Servant

J. Trumbull

Hone. J. J. Esqr.

ALS, UkWC-A (EJ: 00042). Tr, in William Jay’s hand, NNC (EJ: 07200).

1. See Jonathan Trumbull Jr. to John Trumbull, 20 Apr. 1794, Ct, cited in Trumbull, Autobiography description begins Trumbull, John, The Autobiography of John Trumbull, ed. by Theodore Sizer (New Haven, Conn., 1953) description ends , 179; and Samuel Bayard to AH, 23 Apr. 1794, PAH description begins Harold C. Syrett et al., eds., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (27 vols.; New York, 1961–87) description ends , 16: 313–15.

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    To John Jay from John Trumbull, 21 April 1794
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    “To John Jay from John Trumbull, 21 April 1794,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jay/01-05-02-0307. [Original source: The Selected Papers of John Jay, vol. 5, 1788–1794, ed. Elizabeth M. Nuxoll. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017, p. 625.]

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