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246 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
feel myself more interested. I rejoice at it as it advances
your fortune and reputation. I lament it, as it adds to the
losses I have already felt in the course of this war, that of
a friend whom I had sense enough to value, even before
age had ripened my judgment, and whom an after acquaintance with the world has taught me to think inestimable. I
call it a loss, for I have but little prospect of seeing you
here again. You will now move in a more enlarged sphere,
and will hardly think of recrossing the Atlantic, till the
blood runs too slowly in our veins to keep up the ardour of
friendship. I was going to give you a long detail of State
politics, but they are now unworthy your attention. Besides
that, I by no means feel myself disposed at this moment to
view them in any other than the most contemptible light,
or to execrate them for detaining me here, when I so ardently wish to receive your last adieu. When do you embark, and where ? If from Boston, tell me when to meet
you at Fishkill, and perhaps (if the Legislature adjourn) to
accompany you. If this pleasure is denied me, believe that
you and yours are attended by every tender wish which the
sincerest friendship can dictate. I will not wrong you so
much as to ask you to omit no occasion of lessening the
pain I feel in your absence, by writing to me by every conveyance ; your own heart has and will for ever suggest that
thought. Adieu, my dear John.
May you be as happy as I wish you,
Robert R. Livingston.
GENERAL WASHINGTON TO JAY.
West-Point, October 7, 1779.
Dear Sir :
Among the number of your friends, permit me also to
congratulate you, and my country, on your late honourable
and important appointment. Be assured, sir, that my pleas-
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 1 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000277 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 246 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. feel myself more interested. I rejoice at it as it advances your fortune and reputation. I lament it, as it adds to the losses I have already felt in the course of this war, that of a friend whom I had sense enough to value, even before age had ripened my judgment, and whom an after acquaintance with the world has taught me to think inestimable. I call it a loss, for I have but little prospect of seeing you here again. You will now move in a more enlarged sphere, and will hardly think of recrossing the Atlantic, till the blood runs too slowly in our veins to keep up the ardour of friendship. I was going to give you a long detail of State politics, but they are now unworthy your attention. Besides that, I by no means feel myself disposed at this moment to view them in any other than the most contemptible light, or to execrate them for detaining me here, when I so ardently wish to receive your last adieu. When do you embark, and where ? If from Boston, tell me when to meet you at Fishkill, and perhaps (if the Legislature adjourn) to accompany you. If this pleasure is denied me, believe that you and yours are attended by every tender wish which the sincerest friendship can dictate. I will not wrong you so much as to ask you to omit no occasion of lessening the pain I feel in your absence, by writing to me by every conveyance ; your own heart has and will for ever suggest that thought. Adieu, my dear John. May you be as happy as I wish you, Robert R. Livingston. GENERAL WASHINGTON TO JAY. West-Point, October 7, 1779. Dear Sir : Among the number of your friends, permit me also to congratulate you, and my country, on your late honourable and important appointment. Be assured, sir, that my pleas- |
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