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J A Y TO DOCTOR KISSAM.
conducive to my satisfaction as the return of those
happy days when our mutual confidence created
mutual happiness and reciprocal good offices promised permanence to friendship. The duplicity and
disengenuoushess which shades the characters of
many about me daily remind me of the openness
and sincerity of my absent friend, and I think I
know the value of these amiable qualifications too
well to be remiss in cultivating his esteem. These
are the genuine effusions of my heart; rest satisfied of their reality and remember that the confidence characteristic of friendship disdains the fetters
of distrust and suspicion. Be not surprised at this
remark. I do not mention it because I think your behaviour would otherwise be uninfluenced by it. No!
my dear Sam, the generosity of your temper excludes
such a thought. I mention it with no other view
than that you may the more readily mark the consistency of this sentiment with the general tenor of
my conduct.
You may remember that my last was interrupted by
a call to Rye. I found my mother extremely [ill], but
she is now better. From thence I went to Fairfield to
try two causes, and returned to New York the day
before yesterday. I have much news, but as your
brother sends you the papers I shall not trouble you
with repeating it. I suppose he has informed you of
Miss Scots having gone off with and married to Litchfield. I am glad you correspond with Fady [Jay's
brother Frederick]. I am sure it will afford him no
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 1 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000042 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | J A Y TO DOCTOR KISSAM. conducive to my satisfaction as the return of those happy days when our mutual confidence created mutual happiness and reciprocal good offices promised permanence to friendship. The duplicity and disengenuoushess which shades the characters of many about me daily remind me of the openness and sincerity of my absent friend, and I think I know the value of these amiable qualifications too well to be remiss in cultivating his esteem. These are the genuine effusions of my heart; rest satisfied of their reality and remember that the confidence characteristic of friendship disdains the fetters of distrust and suspicion. Be not surprised at this remark. I do not mention it because I think your behaviour would otherwise be uninfluenced by it. No! my dear Sam, the generosity of your temper excludes such a thought. I mention it with no other view than that you may the more readily mark the consistency of this sentiment with the general tenor of my conduct. You may remember that my last was interrupted by a call to Rye. I found my mother extremely [ill], but she is now better. From thence I went to Fairfield to try two causes, and returned to New York the day before yesterday. I have much news, but as your brother sends you the papers I shall not trouble you with repeating it. I suppose he has informed you of Miss Scots having gone off with and married to Litchfield. I am glad you correspond with Fady [Jay's brother Frederick]. I am sure it will afford him no |
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