[Document, 1808 January 18]
- Title
- [Document, 1808 January 18]
- Library Location
- Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
- Name
- Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
- Jay, Sarah Louisa (Addressee)
- Format
- correspondence
- Digital Project
- Papers of John Jay
- Date
- January 18, 1808
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- 1 page
- Subjects
- United States--History--Constitutional period, 1789-1809; Jay, John, 1745-1829
- Summary
- Family news. Hopes his children will be well-versed in the science of "living agreeably and comfortably here, and happily hereafter." The first includes the maxim, "Never to buy any thing at too great a Price." To look at objects through our passions is like seeing through colored glass, which paints what is viewed in its own, and not in the true color.
- Identifier
- columbia.jay.06363