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- GLC#
- GLC01610
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- December 5, 1783
- Author/Creator
- Jay, John, 1745-1829
- Title
- to Sarah Livingston Jay
- Place Written
- Bath, England
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 22.6 cm, Width: 18.8 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Letter written by Jay, three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, to his wife Sarah, who he refers to as "Sally," while she was in Paris. Says last letter he received from her was from November 18. Says his trip to the spa town of Bath has improved his health greatly. Says he will spend another 8-10 days and see where that leaves him. Says he misses her and fears his daughter will forget who he is. Jay's formal, straight-laced personality comes through when he says "in a Letter by the post I must not indulge these Emotions as in confidential Conversations." Says he has received much attention from the Countess of Huntington, whose "Head is much rot on the conversion of our Indians - she will find it a difficult Task, but her wishes are laudable tho perhaps too sanguine." Mentions other people he has been seeing in England. There is a strange stamped postmark over the address.
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