Title
[Document, 1789 January 13]
Library Location
Name
Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
Wadsworth, Jeremiah, 1743-1804 (Addressee)
Format
correspondence
Digital Project
Papers of John Jay
Date
January 13, 1789
Language
English
Physical Description
3 pages
Subjects
United States--History--1783-1865; Jay, John, 1745-1829
Summary
Writes Wadsworth (at Hartford) asking him to send to Mrs. Jay "a pattern of a gown and petticoat, of some grave quaker color" of the excellent silks they have heard are available in Wallingford. "Cloths" have arrived. Jay will see them next day and take a suit. "If it should become fashionable to prefer our own manufactures, their Progress will be greatly advanced by it; especially if we come to consider whatever is American as our own..."
Identifier
columbia.jay.02674