United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Jay, John, 1745-1829
Summary
Thanks to John Jay and God for the peace. Nancy, John Jay's sister, is
declining. "This world was not made for mortals to be happy in." Does not except that
Jay will return soon because she has heard that he is to be appointed Ambassador to some
foreign court. "In a certain city such an alteration in the manners and living of its
inhabitants has prevailed as must fill every thinking person with shame and grief that
an infant state should indulge in the luxury and dissipation and vices of old worn out
Empires and which always precede their ruin." Thanks him for the seeds. Condition of her
garden.