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Name

Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)

Livingston, Robert R. (Addressee)

Title

Document, 1765 May 01

Abstract

ALS. Written in response to a letter from Livingston, who was still attending King's College: "I have often remarked Ambition to be one of your strongest Passions, and have as often been surprised that instead of attending to such Pur[suits?] as are most capable of gratifying so noble a Passion, you seem [rather?] to counteract your own Purposes, and to destroy those very Hopes which you are desirous to establish...." Admonishes him to "reject the Invitations of Syren Pleasure, and fly with hasty Steps the flowerly Vale of unsubstantial Joys." Jay graduated from King's the year before. » Show more « Show less

Subjects

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Jay, John, 1745-1829

Format

correspondence

Genre

correspondence

Date

1765 May 01

Physical Description

2

Note

The entire content of the original has been digitized.

Library Location

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
(Non-Columbia Location)

Also In

The papers of John Jay