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MRS. GEN. MONTGOMERY TO MRS. JAY. 403
Tell Harry to beware of engaging in a quarrel with the
Dons in Spain—this dueling is a very foolish way of putting
ones self out of the world. Mr. Jay at Fishkill is not as well
as he has been I am told, tho all with him are so. Sir
James is at Philadelphia and I hear solicitous to go to
France.
Pray are you very distant from Lisbon and do you never
see any one from that place ? I have a Brother at the
English I feel the utmost tenderness for each individual of my lost Soldier's Family; and whilst life and
memory are left me his loved Idea must ever retain my
whole heart and fill it with regret that my every hope
of happiness is no more. This is a subject that always
obtrudes itself let me begin with what I will and unfits me
for every other Duty. Then I am lost to all but this ; but
as I am not fond of appearing like a memento to my friends
I generally have the strength of mind to quit my imploy-
ment before I have given them a turn of thought, that might
perhaps throw them into the vapors. You have a Soul
superior I know to this; you look forward doubtless to
events like my misfortune with the eye of a Philosopher,
and the mind of a Christian. May you never have occasion
to exert either & for such a loss till age has blunted those fine
feelings which when it happens in early life drives the sensible Soul to despair. Make my Compliments to Mr- Jay,
Col. Livingston, and Mr- Morris. Mrs. Livingston sends her
love to you & bids me tell you a hundred fine things of her
daughter—but at present I can only say that I am
With much Esteem
Yours
J. Montgomery.1
1 Mrs. Janet Montgomery was the daughter of Judge Robert R. Livingston.
In 1773 she married General Richard Montgomery, who fell in the assault upon
Quebec, December 31, 1775.
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 1 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000434 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | MRS. GEN. MONTGOMERY TO MRS. JAY. 403 Tell Harry to beware of engaging in a quarrel with the Dons in Spain—this dueling is a very foolish way of putting ones self out of the world. Mr. Jay at Fishkill is not as well as he has been I am told, tho all with him are so. Sir James is at Philadelphia and I hear solicitous to go to France. Pray are you very distant from Lisbon and do you never see any one from that place ? I have a Brother at the English I feel the utmost tenderness for each individual of my lost Soldier's Family; and whilst life and memory are left me his loved Idea must ever retain my whole heart and fill it with regret that my every hope of happiness is no more. This is a subject that always obtrudes itself let me begin with what I will and unfits me for every other Duty. Then I am lost to all but this ; but as I am not fond of appearing like a memento to my friends I generally have the strength of mind to quit my imploy- ment before I have given them a turn of thought, that might perhaps throw them into the vapors. You have a Soul superior I know to this; you look forward doubtless to events like my misfortune with the eye of a Philosopher, and the mind of a Christian. May you never have occasion to exert either & for such a loss till age has blunted those fine feelings which when it happens in early life drives the sensible Soul to despair. Make my Compliments to Mr- Jay, Col. Livingston, and Mr- Morris. Mrs. Livingston sends her love to you & bids me tell you a hundred fine things of her daughter—but at present I can only say that I am With much Esteem Yours J. Montgomery.1 1 Mrs. Janet Montgomery was the daughter of Judge Robert R. Livingston. In 1773 she married General Richard Montgomery, who fell in the assault upon Quebec, December 31, 1775. |
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