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[Document, 1765 April 02]

1. [Document, 1765 April 02]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: April 02, 1765
  • Summary: After conversation with Livingston, Jay retired to reflect on it. Will say in this letter the sentiments he was too embarrassed to say to his face. Livingston possesses every social qualification and mental endowment. Jay had early thought of forming ...
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1765 April 19]

2. [Document, 1765 April 19]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: April 19, 1765
  • Summary: Reply to letter from Livingston of April 18. Encloses something for Livingston to read and criticize. Is undetermined with respect to the property of many things contained in it and would like Livingston's ???? to resolve doubts.
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1765 October 31]

3. [Document, 1765 October 31]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: October 31, 1765
  • Summary: Profuse thanks for Livingston's actions. "I think myself extremely happy in an assurance from you (whom I can't suspect of dissimulation) that no other material deficiency marks my character than the one you mention: and I thankfully acknowledge endea...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1765 October 31]

4. [Document, 1765 October 31]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: October 31, 1765
  • Summary: Profuse thanks for Livingston's analysis of his character. "I think myself extremely happy in an assurance from you (whom I can't suspect of dissimulation) that no other material deficiency marks my character than the one you mention: and I thankfully...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1766 March 04]

5. [Document, 1766 March 04]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: March 04, 1766
  • Summary: Letter from John Jay to Robert R. Livingston. Livingston is now in the country at the family estate Clermont, after having been "highly entertained of late, and by your account of the Matter have attained every Qualification necessary to form a Buck."...
  • Number of Images: 2
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6. [Document, 1768 July n.d. - 1775 April 25]

[Document, 1769 January n.d.]

7. [Document, 1769 January n.d.]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1769 January n.d.
  • Summary: Jay did not receive the recent letter from Livingston, and Livingston did not receive the two letters in which Jay informs him of the dissolution of the New York Assembly by Governor Sir Henry Moore. Discusses the measures taken by the DeLancey factio...
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1775 December 19]

8. [Document, 1775 December 19]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: December 19, 1775
  • Summary: Deeply regrets the death of Livingston's father. Jay went to visit Harry Livingston and asked him to dine with him. Harry said he dined with Duane, so Jay went with him. Since then he has not seen him except to speak in the street. Jay has his own ide...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1775 January 01]

9. [Document, 1775 January 01]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: January 01, 1775
  • Summary: Jay's analysis of his and Livingston's characters: Livingston more vivacity and Jay more staid because of pride and bashfulness. Both ambitious but by different roads; Livingston more flexible, Jay more pertinacious, both sensible of indignities, Livi...
  • Number of Images: 3
[Document, 1776 February 25]

10. [Document, 1776 February 25]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: February 25, 1776
  • Summary: Advice on how to overcome his "indifference." Livingston ought to engage in "amusement and exercise." Jay did not give notice to the ridiculous story of Livingston's having given intelligence to Governor Tryon. Such a report has been circulating conce...
  • Number of Images: 3
[Document, 1776 January 06]

11. [Document, 1776 January 06]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: January 06, 1776
  • Summary: Consolation on death of Judge Livingston. "Resignation to the dispensations of a benevolent as well as omnipotent being can alone administer relief." Admonition to Livingston to serve his country. Assurance of continuance of his friendship.
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1776 January 26]

12. [Document, 1776 January 26]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: January 26, 1776
  • Summary: Hopes for his recovery, suggests Robert Livingston try change of surroundings. Announces birth of son [Peter Augustus Jay] on 24 January.
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1776 July 01]

13. [Document, 1776 July 01]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: July 01, 1776
  • Summary: Has just returned to the city from Elizabeth and discovered to his dismay that the convention will be meeting in White Plains, following a scheme of Gouverneur Morris. Worried about what the public will think. The prosecution of Governor Tryon's plot ...
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[Document, 1776 July 16]

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[Document, 1776 June 11]

15. [Document, 1776 June 11]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: June 11, 1776
  • Summary: Caution and prudence daily seem more estimable. But where caution encroaches on the rights of friendship it becomes criminal. Mutual and full confidence all important in friendship. James Livingston will resign if necessary to make room for Robert R. ...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1776 March 04]

16. [Document, 1776 March 04]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: March 04, 1776
  • Summary: Jay has been despondent because of the misfortunes of family and friends, but "I hope I shall meet every severe stroke of fate with firmness and resignation, tho not with sullen indifference." If Jay had been present when the Committee for Canada was ...
  • Number of Images: 4
[Document, 1776 May 29]

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[Document, 1777 April 19]

18. [Document, 1777 April 19]

[Document, 1777 April 29]

19. [Document, 1777 April 29]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee) Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Addressee)
  • Date: April 29, 1777
  • Summary: Jay approved the amendment to State Constitution directing Governors to nominate officers to legislature but felt a better clause could be devised. Jay against judges appointing clerks, the judges are appointed for life and might well select their fav...
  • Number of Images: 9
[Document, 1777 April 29]

20. [Document, 1777 April 29]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee) Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Addressee)
  • Date: April 29, 1777
  • Summary: Jay approved the amendment to State Constitution directing Governors to nominate officers to legislature but felt a better clause could be devised. Jay against judges appointing clerks, the judges are appointed for life and might well select their fav...
  • Number of Images: 6