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[Document, 1780 August 28]

61. [Document, 1780 August 28]

  • Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: August 28, 1780
  • Summary: Personal letter. Thanks John Jay for all his attentions to her happiness. She is glad that John Jay's health has not been impaired by his fatiguing journey. Sally finds that she can neither "write to nor hear from America without great emotion."
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1780 August 28]

62. [Document, 1780 August 28]

  • Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Symmes, Susan Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: August 28, 1780
  • Summary: Comments on the closeness of death before the safe arrival at Martinique. The passage to Cadiz was pleasant, but Mrs. Jay was indisposed due to rough weather and another reason "I leave you to conjecture." From Cadiz the Jay party journeyed to Port St...
  • Number of Images: 14
[Document, 1780 December 01]

63. [Document, 1780 December 01]

  • Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Livingston, Catherine (Addressee)
  • Date: December 01, 1780
  • Summary: Praises Kitty for her faithfulness in writing and criticizes the silence of family and friends. Hopes that the "bets" between Kitty and the Chevalier are "considerable" since Kitty is certainly entitled to the "stakes." Sends her compliments to the Ch...
  • Number of Images: 4
[Document, 1780 December 24]

64. [Document, 1780 December 24]

  • Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: December 24, 1780
  • Summary: She is indignant that her letters to Mrs. Jay are intercepted-even though they go with the Congressional dispatches. They miss the Jays very much, and sympathize with them on the loss of their infant daughter. Mrs. Jay should take comfort in the healt...
  • Number of Images: 4
Document, 1780 December n.d.

65. Document, 1780 December n.d.

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: 1780 December n.d.
  • Summary: Personal letter. Does she see the doctor--he has heard that the doctor attends Mrs. Cumberland; perhaps they should alter the routing of their letters.
  • Number of Images: 0
[Document, 1780 February 13]

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[Document, 1780 July 10]

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[Document, 1780 May 13]

68. [Document, 1780 May 13]

Document, 1780 May 23

69. Document, 1780 May 23

Document, 1780 n.d.

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Document, 1780 October 21

72. Document, 1780 October 21

[Document, 1780 September 01]

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[Document, 1780 September 06]

74. [Document, 1780 September 06]

  • Name: Montgomery, Janet Livingston, 1743-1828 (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: September 06, 1780
  • Summary: Report on the Livingston family. Birth of a daughter who seems designed for the Jays' son. "I only hope that she may live to cement our families in a still closer union." Sarah's cousin, William Alexander Livingston, was killed by a Mr. Steaks in a du...
  • Number of Images: 4
[Document, 1780 September 15]

75. [Document, 1780 September 15]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: September 15, 1780
  • Summary: Personal letter containing summary of news they have received from America concerning military situation.
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1780 September 17]

76. [Document, 1780 September 17]

  • Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: September 17, 1780
  • Summary: The family is in good health. Hopes to see Jay soon. The Abbe Ryan has been friendly in Jay's absence.
  • Number of Images: 3
[Document, 1780 September 21]

77. [Document, 1780 September 21]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: September 21, 1780
  • Summary: Hopes to be back with her by next week, for at least five or six months. Stay cheerful. Remember that she is an American and can endure her circumstances in a way that has already earned her a good reputation.
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1780 September 22]

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[Document, 1781 August 31]

79. [Document, 1781 August 31]

  • Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) White Morris, Mary (Addressee)
  • Date: August 31, 1781
  • Summary: An extract from a letter: a description of the Royal Gardens at St. Ildefonso, Spain.
  • Number of Images: 4
[Document, 1781 August 7]

80. [Document, 1781 August 7]

  • Name: Montgomery, Janet Livingston, 1743-1828 (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: August 7, 1781
  • Summary: Writing from Clermont, she teases Mrs. Jay that she has no news "to charm a find Lady, used to Courts, and surrounded by Adulation." Since visiting the Jays in Philadelphia, she has confined herself to the Hudson Valley. Writes of births in the family...
  • Number of Images: 2