1From John Jay to Jedidiah Morse, 24 April 1800 (Jay Papers)
Several Affairs more interesting to others than to me, have for some months past so pressed upon me, as together with official Business, to leave me little Leisure to attend to my own Concerns— Hence I have been constrained into Delays respecting my correspondents, which could not have been less agreable to their Feelings than to my own— Accept my Thanks for several Communications with which...