To John Jay from David Longworth, 16 September 1809
From David Longworth
[Saturday Sept. 16. 1809]
Sir
I am directed by Dr Ramsay1 to present you in his name the copy of his S[outh] Carolina2 herewith sent With respect I am sir Your obdt servt
David Longworth
ALS, NNC (EJ: 09056). For JJ’s reply, see his letter to Longworth, 28 Oct. 1809, below. David Longworth (c. 1765–1821), New York publisher most known for Longworth’s New York Register, as well as plays, prints, and maps. He also had a business in Charleston, S.C.
1. David Ramsay (1749–1815), Pennsylvanian-born Charleston-based physician, politician, and historian. His history of the American Revolution first appeared in 1789, and subsequently went through six American editions, as well as English, Irish, French, German, and Dutch editions. Ramsay and JJ had become acquainted in New York while Ramsay was a member of the Continental Congress. JJ had assisted Ramsay during the 1780s–90s with the Van Horne affair, a legal action involving the payment of a large sum owed by Ramsay to Ann Van Horne. See JJ to Robert Troup, 25 May 1792, , 5: 409–10, note 3.
2. The history of South-Carolina, from its first settlement in 1670, to the Year 1808 (Charleston, 1809; Early Am. Imprints, series 2, no. 18474).