The papers of John Jay

[Document, 1809 April 25]

61. [Document, 1809 April 25]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: April 25, 1809
Summary: John Jay's satisfaction with Pickering's public labors gives him gratification and happiness, as does the esteem of all great men. But do not refined talents often fail with the "great mass" of a community? Quotes St. Paul: "I had rather speak five wo...
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[Document, 1809 February 23]

62. [Document, 1809 February 23]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: February 23, 1809
Summary: Has not found time to investigate and expose the conduct of the Administration during the past eight years. Intends to publish some remarks on a bill for non-intercourse with Great Britain, France, and their dependencies, which was recently introduced...
Number of Images: 3

[Document, 1809 February 23]

63. [Document, 1809 February 23]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: February 23, 1809
Summary: Has not found time to investigate and expose the conduct of the Administration during the past eight years. Intends to publish some remarks on a bill for non-intercourse with Great Britain, France, and their dependencies, which was recently introduced...
Number of Images: 3

[Document, 1809 January 13]

64. [Document, 1809 January 13]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: January 13, 1809
Summary: Is sending some papers, including Mr. Hillhouse's speech on the bill for enforcing the embargo. His investigation has been given an opportunity for public examination by Mr. Eppes' speech in the House of Representatives accusing him of withholding inf...
Number of Images: 2

[Document, 1810 February 13]

65. [Document, 1810 February 13]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: February 13, 1810
Summary: Is sorry to hear of Jay's poor health and thanks him for the information requested. Numerous essays have been written on Madison's message and communications to Congress at the opening of the present session, on the "nakedness" of our country in the a...
Number of Images: 2

[Document, 1810 February 13]

66. [Document, 1810 February 13]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: February 13, 1810
Summary: Is sorry to hear of Jay's poor health and thanks him for the information requested. Numerous essays have been written on Madison's message and communications to Congress at the opening of the present session, on the "nakedness" of our country in the a...
Number of Images: 1

[Document, 1810 February 17]

67. [Document, 1810 February 17]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: February 17, 1810
Summary: Macon's Bill ("insidiously" called the American Navigation Act by the government paper) has passed the House of Representatives and will be considered by the Senate on Monday. It appears that it will either be rejected, or so altered as to repeal the ...
Number of Images: 2

[Document, 1810 January 24]

68. [Document, 1810 January 24]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: January 24, 1810
Summary: In conversation with Jasper Moylan, he has learned that several men were ruined in commercial speculation on the advice of Franklin due to Jay's negotiation of the Treaty of Peace with Britain. Has also discovered through Jay's correspondence on negot...
Number of Images: 4

[Document, 1810 January 24]

69. [Document, 1810 January 24]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: January 24, 1810
Summary: In conversation with Jasper Moylan, he has learned that several men were ruined in commercial speculation on the advice of Franklin due to Jay's negotiation of the Treaty of Peace with Britain. Has also discovered through Jay's correspondence on negot...
Number of Images: 4

[Document, 1811 February 04]

70. [Document, 1811 February 04]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: February 04, 1811
Summary: The conduct of the government toward Spain and her territories has produced animadversion, and it has been asserted that this power was the first to give us aid in the Revolution. As John Jay would know the facts if anyone would, Pickering would like ...
Number of Images: 2

[Document, 1811 February 05]

71. [Document, 1811 February 05]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: February 05, 1811
Summary: The conduct of the government toward Spain and her territories has produced animadversion, and it has been asserted that this power was the first to give us aid in the Revolution. As John Jay would know the facts if anyone would, Pickering would like ...
Number of Images: 1

[Document, 1814 April 14]

72. [Document, 1814 April 14]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: April 14, 1814
Summary: Proposes to visit him at Bedford, which he has been meaning to do for many years. Sends his speech on the loan bill; it seems important to him that facts elucidating public measures and the characters of their authors should rest on explicit evidence....
Number of Images: 2

[Document, 1814 October 22]

73. [Document, 1814 October 22]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: October 22, 1814
Summary: Is sending dispatches from our ministers at Ghent, their instructions, and the statement of the new Secretary of the Treasury. While the proposition concerning our Indian boundary was declared a sine qua non, the boundary itself needed modification. D...
Number of Images: 2

[Document, 1819 April 27]

74. [Document, 1819 April 27]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: April 27, 1819
Summary: Sends him a pamphlet by John Lowell, son of the late Judge Lowell, containing his review of George Hay's work on expatriation. The younger Lowell is a controversial political figure, having championed his country's rights during "the misrule of the se...
Number of Images: 2

[Document, 1819 April 27]

75. [Document, 1819 April 27]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: April 27, 1819
Summary: Sends him a pamphlet by John Lowell, son of the late Judge John Lowell, containing his review of George Hay's work on expatriation. The younger Lowell is a controversial political figure, having championed his country's rights during "the misrule of t...
Number of Images: 2

Document, 1824 September 23

76. Document, 1824 September 23

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1824 September 23
Summary: ALS. A long letter on politics, foreign relations, Pickering's relationship with John Adams and others, and attacks on him in print. Extensively discusses the politics surrounding his "Review of the Adams & Cunningham ...
Number of Images: 0

[Document, 1824 September 23]

77. [Document, 1824 September 23]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: September 23, 1824
Summary: His review of the Adams and Cunningham correspondence has put in motion many "electioneering pens" for John Q. Adams and numbers in Pickering's defense. No detractor surpasses Robert Walsh, Jr. of the National Gazette in Philadelphia. Formerly evincin...
Number of Images: 3

[Document, 1825 May n.d.]

78. [Document, 1825 May n.d.]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1825 May n.d.
Summary: Transmits a copy of "A Memoir of the French Protestants who settled at Oxford in Massachusetts, in 1686; with a Sketch of the entire history of the Protestants of France" from Rev. Dr. Holmes of Cambridge. It is interesting to see how many lives were ...
Number of Images: 2

[Document, 1825 May n.d.]

79. [Document, 1825 May n.d.]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1825 May n.d.
Summary: Transmits a copy of "A Memoir of the French Protestants who settled at Oxford in Massachusetts, in 1686; with a Sketch of the entire history of the Protestants of France" from Rev. Dr. Holmes of Cambridge. It is interesting to see how many lives were ...
Number of Images: 2

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