[Document, 1801 January 2]
- Name
- Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
- Marshall, John, 1755-1835 (Addressee)
- Title
- [Document, 1801 January 2]
- Abstract
- Autograph draft. Reply to letter from Marshall enclosing Jay's commission as Chief Justice. Declines the post: " (independent of other Considerations) the Incompetency of my Health to the Fatigues incident to the Office, forms an insuperable objection to my accepting it."
- Subjects
- United States--History--Constitutional period, 1789-1809; Jay, John, 1745-1829
- Format
- correspondence
- Genre
- correspondence
- Date
- January 2, 1801
- Physical Description
- 2 pages
- Note (Acknowledgement)
- Courtesy of the Newberry Library, Chicago
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Browse Location’s Digital Content
- Also In
- The papers of John Jay
- Copyright Status
- No Copyright - United States
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/f7x6-7469