The papers of John Jay

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.]
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Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Addressee)
Date: February 19, 1785
Summary: Desires to slip away from business to his friends and family. Hopes that he will be able to next Saturday.
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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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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...
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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.
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Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Addressee)
Date: March 10, 1788
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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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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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Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Gérard, Conrad Alexandre, 1729-1790 (Addressee) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Jay, Peter (Addressee) Livingston, Catherine (Addressee) Livingston, Susan (Addressee) Livingston, Susannah French, 1723-1789 (Addressee) Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Addressee)
Date: ante 1765 and January 1, 1780 - March 14, 1781
Summary: John Jay's School Copybook (ante 1765) and Sarah Jay's Letterbook, 1 January 1780-14 March 1781. Paperbound copybook opening with eight leaves inscribed by John Jay, probably ante 1765, containing conjugations of French verbs and declensions of French...
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