Document, 1783 April 12

Title
Document, 1783 April 12
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Name
Livingston, Margaret (Author)
Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Format
correspondence
Digital Project
Papers of John Jay
Date
1783 April 12
Physical Description
2
Subjects
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.
Identifier
columbia.jay.08356