1To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 6 November 1783 (Jay Papers)
This Even g . M r . & Miss Laurens favor’d me w th . their Company, and as they set out tomorrow for England I could not suffer them to go without a little token of my remembrance, & that they might be ennabled to give you an account of y r . little girls I sent for them down, & was not a little flatter’d by Miss Maria’s behaviour—she does not yet speak, but she improves in her health & looks....
2To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 22 April 1794 (Jay Papers)
Yesterday I received y r . two kind letters of Saturday & Sunday. I do indeed judge of your feelings by my own & for that reason forebore writing while under the first impression of surprize & grief— Your superiority in fortitude as well as every other virtue I am aware of, yet I know too well your tenderness for your family to doubt the pangs of separation— Your own conflicts are sufficient:...
3To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 21 January 1783 (Jay Papers)
Immediately upon the rec t . of your letter of the 18 th ., I sent to request the favor of M r . Whitford’s company a few minutes & communicated to him y r . sentiments of the horse. he promised to mount him & give me his opinion after the tryal, but as the signing the preliminary articles yesterday was an interesting event, he seem’d himself too much agitated to execute his intention— This...
I should have troubled you a second time, & ^ have wrote you ^ by the last Post had I not entertained the hope that it would not be long before I should have the pleasure of acknowledging at least one favor from you. I have been disappointed, ’tis true, but still I will not relinquish the pleasing idea of being affectionately remembered by my beloved friend— To prevent future mortifications of...
5To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 2 June 1792 (Jay Papers)
I have had the pleasure of receiving your favor by M r . Alden & the one of the 23 d Ult. and thank you for them as well as for the kind allowance you make for the apparent silence on my part I say apparent because in reallity I had written; but the letter which M r . Dalton took charge of, I requested might be left with M r . Gore, least it might share the fate of one sent you at Exeter last...
6To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 11 December 1783 (Jay Papers)
The arrival of several posts without any letters from you, as seventeen days had elaps’d since the date of your last, had in spite of my endeavors to the contrary dejected my spirits; not that I thought you negligent, but because I feared some accident had prevented y r . writing: but last evening your letter of the 29 th . Ult. restored the tranquility of my mind, which had indeed been...
7To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 4 June 1792 (Jay Papers)
I sent my packet for you yesterday to Cap tn . Cahoon, but as he does not sail until this day I send you Loudon’s paper which contains some farther accounts respecting the Otsego votes. It is M r . Jones’s opinion that the legality of them does not admit a question — The people of Otsego, alarmed at what they think are attempts to violate ^their^ rights have deputized Jacob Morris to come to...
8To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 14 November 1790 (Jay Papers)
Last thursday evening Gov r . Langdon waited upon me to give me tidings of you— he told me that himself & Lady had but just arrived & were to leave N. York on saturday— as I thought his early attention ^to me^ proceeded from his regard for you, I was solicitous to shew them civility in return; & therefore waited upon M rs . L[angdon] in the morning, & requested them to take tea & pass that...
9To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 10[–12] June 1792 (Jay Papers)
On friday myself & the children had the pleasure of receiving your kind letters of the last of May and first of June, since which I hope you have rec d . two packets from me sent to Judge Marchant’s care by Cap tn . Peterson & Cap tn . Cahoon— I intended ^to^ send this by to-morrow’s post, but I have just heard that Cap tn . Peterson is again to sail out Tuesday, so that I think it best to...
10To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, [18 April 1794] (Jay Papers)
Your letter of yesterday gave me reason to think that one from me w d . hardly reach you before you left Philadelphia from the one I’ve this inst t . received you think I may write how my d r . M r . Jay is it possible? The Utmost exertion I can make is to be silent— excuse me if I have not philosophy or Patriotism to do more— I heard of the nomination yesterday— so did the Children— the paper...