Title
[Document, 1781 July 29]
Library Location
Name
Morris, Mary White, 1749-1827 (Author)
Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
Format
correspondence
Digital Project
Papers of John Jay
Date
July 29, 1781
Language
English
Physical Description
4 pages
Subjects
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Jay, John, 1745-1829
Summary
Acknowledges letter of April 22 with effusive thanks. "The prints of the Spanish dresses" that came last summer "were a curiosity & served to amuse our friends." Description of the passengers on the three ships that arrived recently under flag of truce from South Carolina -- British have "so inhumanly plunder'd of their Estates" and then denied them subsistence. "There is no instance of greater tyranny" than British behavior toward patriot civilians and soldiers in that occupied state. Tribute to Carolinians' spirit in face of deprivation and illness.
Identifier
columbia.jay.13329