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- GLC#
- GLC03107.03558-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1784/09/15
- Author/Creator
- Livingston, Robert Cambridge, 1742-1790
- Title
- to Robert Livingston, Jr. re: advice for a more tranquil life
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 3p. : address : Height: 32.7 cm, Width: 20.2 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
"I observe you are surrounded with difficulties which disconcert and ruffle your disposition. . . . They are incident to ev'ry undertaking of magnitude and must be expected by those conducting them till the nature and disposition of men are altered. . . . When men therefore engage in a multiplicity of momentuous undertakings they Barter their ease and tranquility for the Chance of acquireing wealth. . . . Peace tranquility and Ease, accompanied by affluence & splendor, are pleading for your acceptance on the one side; while Toil, Fatigue, Anxiety, vexation & disappointment are threatening on the other - why then hesitate for a moment in your choice!" Docketed on address leaf.
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