Title
[Document, 1781 March 1]
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Name
Livingston, Brockholst, 1757-1823 (Author)
Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
Format
correspondence
Digital Project
Papers of John Jay
Date
March 1, 1781
Language
English
Physical Description
5 pages
Subjects
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Jay, John, 1745-1829
Summary
Writes from Nantes. Mrs. Joshua Johnson has been too unwell to execute Sarah's commission, but she soon will. She has shown Brockholst a riding suit for Mrs. Bingham. "Our affairs must be in a promising train while the ladies can afford such extravagance." Brockholst went to the first masquerade he had ever seen. "I wonder any lady who has the least pretensions to modesty will be seen at a place where disorder, double entendres, and indecency are so prevalent. Perhaps none there labored under this embarrassment. It was certainly fortunate for me not to be sufficiently acquainted with the language to understand the half of what was said. By this ignorance the delicate organs of my hearing escaped and spare me the imputation of modesty, which must often, in spite of ever effort, have discovered itself by the blushes which would have overspread the cheeks of a much less bashful fellow than myself"
Identifier
columbia.jay.08296