To John Jay from John Clarkson Jay, 23 February 1818
From John Clarkson Jay
Morris Town, 23th February 1818
Mon cher Grandpere
J’espere que vous et toute la famille etes bien. Je regarde d’avance avec bien deplaisir a L’approche d’avril et Je desire le plaisir De vous voir. Ditez moi dans votre prochaine lettre quand ma tante Nancy va venir a la ville vivre avec ma tante Marie. Je lis Telemaque1 et Je m’ en vais Commencer Cæsar2 au prim^i^er de mars.
Donnez mon amour a la tante Nancy et toute la famille. Je reste votre petit fils affectionne.3
John Clarkson Jay
ALS, NNC (EJ: 08375).
1. François de Salignac de LaMothe Fénelon, Les Avantures De Telemaque Fils D’Ulysse, Ou Suite Du Quatriéme Livre De L’Odyssée D’Homere (The Hague, 1699). Featured in Rousseau’s émile (1762), which demonstrates his educational theories, Archbishop Fenelon’s didactic novel was republished and translated dozens of times throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
2. Cæsar’s Gallic Wars was a beginning text in Latin education.
3. Translation by editors:
My dear Grandfather
I hope you and the whole family are well. I look forward with great pleasure to the approach of April and to the pleasure of seeing you. Tell me in your next letter when my aunt Nancy is coming to town to live with my aunt Maria. I am reading Telemaque and will start on Cæsar the first of March.
Give my love to aunt Nancy and the whole family. I remain your affectionate grandson.