The papers of John Jay

[Document, 1818 December 12]

41. [Document, 1818 December 12]

Name: Peters, Richard, 1743-1828 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: December 12, 1818
Summary: Finds enjoyment in "living" with old friends in the manner that Swedenborgians commune with departed spirits. Is not afflicted with the usual maladies of old age, attributing this to good spirits, temperance, and constant use of cold baths. Continues ...
Number of Images: 3

[Document, 1819 January 11]

42. [Document, 1819 January 11]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Peters, Richard, 1743-1828 (Addressee)
Date: January 11, 1819
Summary: Has delayed in thanking Peters for his letter of December 12 and the book which accompanied it as an attack of influenza weakened his eyes. Hopes to be able to write a longer letter soon.
Number of Images: 1

[Document, 1819 January 25]

43. [Document, 1819 January 25]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Peters, Richard, 1743-1828 (Addressee)
Date: January 25, 1819
Summary: Speaks of his health and of the death of his daughter last spring. Suggests the publication of selected cases from Peters' court prepared by him rather than others. Has read parts of the book he sent. Agricultural societies multiply in New York, and J...
Number of Images: 4

[Document, 1819 January 25]

44. [Document, 1819 January 25]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Peters, Richard, 1743-1828 (Addressee)
Date: January 25, 1819
Summary: Speaks of his health and of the death of his daughter last spring. Suggests the publication of selected cases from Peters' court prepared by him rather than others. Has read parts of the book he sent. Agricultural societies multiply in New York, and J...
Number of Images: 4

[Document, 1820 December 26]

45. [Document, 1820 December 26]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Peters, Richard, 1743-1828 (Addressee)
Date: December 26, 1820
Summary: The "Perversion and Obliquity" to which he refers are neither recent nor unexpected. Men who pursue influence usually remain hostile to those who disapprove of their maneuvers. The statement made at the Massachusetts Convention was doubtless accommoda...
Number of Images: 2

[Document, 1820 December 26]

46. [Document, 1820 December 26]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Peters, Richard, 1743-1828 (Addressee)
Date: December 26, 1820
Summary: The "Perversion and Obliquity" to which he refers are neither recent nor unexpected. Men who pursue influence usually remain hostile to those who disapprove of their maneuvers. The statement made at the Massachusetts, Convention was doubtless accommod...
Number of Images: 2

[Document, 1820 November 25]

47. [Document, 1820 November 25]

Name: Peters, Richard, 1743-1828 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: November 25, 1820
Summary: Autograph letter signed.
Number of Images: 7

[Document, 1820 November 25]

48. [Document, 1820 November 25]

Name: Peters, Richard, 1743-1828 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: November 25, 1820
Number of Images: 3

[Document, 1821 March 12]

49. [Document, 1821 March 12]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Peters, Richard, 1743-1828 (Addressee)
Date: March 12, 1821
Summary: His letter to Peters of 26 December 1820 remarked on the "Perversions and Obliquities" which were not then explained. They began on receipt of his letter to Congress of 20 Sept. 1781, quoted here. This expresses his unwillingness that the ministers of...
Number of Images: 3

[Document, 1821 March 12]

50. [Document, 1821 March 12]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Peters, Richard, 1743-1828 (Addressee)
Date: March 12, 1821
Summary: His letter to Peters of 26 December 1820 remarked on the "Perversions and Obliquities" which were not then explained. They began on receipt of his letter to Congress of 20 Sept. 1781, quoted here. This expresses his unwillingness that the ministers of...
Number of Images: 3

[Document, 1821 March 20]

51. [Document, 1821 March 20]

Name: Peters, Richard, 1743-1828 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: March 20, 1821
Summary: Refers to the "round assertions" of eastern orators that no proofs existed of French maneuvering, grounding on this base their eulogy of John Jay's coadjutor exclusively. Those who lived and acted in the scenes of that day know better, and could easil...
Number of Images: 3

[Document, 1826 February 21]

52. [Document, 1826 February 21]

Name: Peters, Richard, 1743-1828 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: February 21, 1826
Summary: Has often been solicited to request John Jay's permission to make public his letters on Washington's valedictory address, but has not deemed himself warranted to do so. However, recent "base endeavours" by the Hamilton family and requests from the His...
Number of Images: 2

[Document, 1826 February 21]

53. [Document, 1826 February 21]

Name: Peters, Richard, 1743-1828 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: February 21, 1826
Summary: Has often been solicited to request John Jay's permission to make public his letters on Washington's valedictory address, but has not deemed himself warranted to do so. However, recent "base endeavours" by the Hamilton family and requests from the His...
Number of Images: 5

[Document, 1826 March 03]

54. [Document, 1826 March 03]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Peters, Richard, 1743-1828 (Addressee)
Date: March 03, 1826
Summary: His communication of correspondence with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania was interesting. He answered a letter from them on 24 March referring to the contents of his letter to Peters on 24 March 1811. Hopes that any copies will be of the whole ...
Number of Images: 2

[Document, 1828 June 10]

55. [Document, 1828 June 10]

Name: Peters, Richard, 1743-1828 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: June 10, 1828
Summary: He is 85 years old today. Is free of envy, hatred and malice, and will leave this world with no enmities. Has no desire to write pamphlets on political or personal dissensions as an "old revolutionary friend" continues to do. His passage through life ...
Number of Images: 5

[Document, 1828 June 10]

56. [Document, 1828 June 10]

Name: Peters, Richard, 1743-1828 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: June 10, 1828
Summary: He is 85 years old today. Is free of envy, hatred and malice, and will leave this world with no enmities. Has no desire to write pamphlets on political or personal dissensions as an "old revolutionary friend" continues to do. His passage through life ...
Number of Images: 2

[Document, 1828 June 20]

57. [Document, 1828 June 20]

Name: Jay, William, 1789-1858 (Author) Peters, Richard, 1743-1828 (Addressee)
Date: June 20, 1828
Summary: Writes on behalf of his father since the latter has suffered an inflammation of his right hand. General debility confines him to the house. It would give him pleasure if he could commit his ideas to paper to enlarge on the political topics Peters ment...
Number of Images: 1

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