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[Document, 1777 March 22]

1. [Document, 1777 March 22]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Addressee)
  • Date: March 22, 1777
  • Summary: Comments on Livingston's letters of the 18th and 3rd. Livingston's "panegyric" on king will stimulate the prince to "exalt you at the first opportunity." It is to be regretted that at such a time measures should be feeble. The convention is now consid...
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[Document, 1778 December 18]

2. [Document, 1778 December 18]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Addressee)
  • Date: December 18, 1778
  • Summary: Thanks for congratulations on his election to Presidency of Congress. Commends New Jersey militia's enthusiasm. Brockholst Livingston will be Jay's personal secretary.
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[Document, 1780 July 14]

3. [Document, 1780 July 14]

[Document, 1780 November 22]

4. [Document, 1780 November 22]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Addressee)
  • Date: November 22, 1780
  • Summary: John Jay's daughter has died. Discusses the relative worth of Spanish melons, garden herbs and roots (cabbages, cauliflowers, and onions), and grapes. He and Mrs. Jay are pleased at Judith's marriage to John Watkins.
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[Document, 1781 April 25]

5. [Document, 1781 April 25]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Addressee)
  • Date: April 25, 1781
  • Summary: Letter of introduction for Jean Toscan, the new French Nice Consul at Boston. The have been acquainted with Toscan almost since their arrival in Madrid.
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1783 July 19]

6. [Document, 1783 July 19]

[Document, 1783 July 19]

7. [Document, 1783 July 19]

[Document, 1783 May 21]

8. [Document, 1783 May 21]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Addressee)
  • Date: May 21, 1783
  • Summary: Will send seeds in the fall. Wants Livingston to take care of Peter. None of the Jays too well. Spain was especially bad for them. The boundaries of the states should be settled. Our credit must be restored. Europe especially skeptical on this point. ...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1783 September 12]

9. [Document, 1783 September 12]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Addressee)
  • Date: September 12, 1783
  • Summary: The new baby has been named Ann. Sends pictures of the globes invented by Monsieur Montgolfier. Sends a seed of a flowering shrub.
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1784 December 30]

10. [Document, 1784 December 30]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Addressee)
  • Date: December 30, 1784
  • Summary: Notes the difficult state of his strained relations with Brockholst Livingston. A speedy reconciliation would be least likely to leave lasting wounds. [Notes in John Jay's hand indicate letter mailed 2 January 1785.]
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1785 February 19]

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[Document, 1787 August 27]

12. [Document, 1787 August 27]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Addressee)
  • Date: August 27, 1787
  • Summary: Colonel Mason a man of talents. The length of the Convention will no doubt produce a new government so "wise as to leave no room for applying the moral of the old fable 'Montes parturient'."
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[Document, 1787 July 12]

13. [Document, 1787 July 12]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Addressee)
  • Date: July 12, 1787
  • Summary: Peter is going to Elizabeth, due to William Livingston's kind request. He is pale and thin after a fever; although better, they must guard against a relapse. John Jay will pick him up in person. Before William goes to the constitutional convention, he...
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1788 February 11]

14. [Document, 1788 February 11]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Addressee)
  • Date: February 11, 1788
  • Summary: Family letter - Ice in river delays prospects of a trip to New Jersey. Sends salad seed. Peter working on a letter in Latin to his grandfather, but fears his work will not be good enough. Jay's health fair.
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1790 January 25]

15. [Document, 1790 January 25]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Addressee)
  • Date: January 25, 1790
  • Summary: Jay lists various discrepancies in the sailor's story that make it highly improbable that John Livingston is at Algiers. The men he is said to have served with on the captured ship, do not appear on the list of the ship in which he sailed. Nevertheles...
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[Document, 1801 October 5 a...

16. [Document, 1801 October 5 and 12]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author,Addressee) Livingston, William (Author) Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Addressee)
  • Date: October 5 and 12, 1801
  • Summary: Autograph Letter signed from Livingston in which he describes progress in preparing his father's writings for publication. With draft of Jay's reply of 12 October on verso.
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