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J A Y TO KITTY LIVINGSTON. 409
JAY TO KITTY LIVINGSTON.
St. Ildefonso, 18th September, 1780.
You are really a charming correspondent as well as
a charming every thing else. We have had more letters from you than from all our other friends in
America put together. I need not tell you, therefore,
that I am proportionately the more obliged to you,
and you will easily conceive how much pleasure it
gives me to be obliged by one who has so great a share
in my esteem and regard.
Sally is at Madrid. She intended to write you
a long letter, and I dare say has done so. I won't repeat what I am sure she must have told you. I often
wish you were with us for our sake, and as often am
content that you are not for yours. We go on tolerably well, flattering ourselves that we shall not long
be absent, and anticipating the pleasures we are to
enjoy on our return. . . .
How does my dear little boy do ? I hope he goes
on well. Tell me a good deal of those matters which
you may readily suppose I have a curiosity to know,
and the more you say of yourself the better I shall
like your letters. I expected Judy would have written
us a wedding letter, but I presume she has been too
much engaged by a nearer correspondent to think of
those on this side the ocean. Present my congratulations and best wishes to the doves. Billy, I suppose, continues as unusual as ever. How does Susan
do? Give us the history of your late retreat from
Elizabethtown. I fancy you began to think there
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 1 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000440 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | J A Y TO KITTY LIVINGSTON. 409 JAY TO KITTY LIVINGSTON. St. Ildefonso, 18th September, 1780. You are really a charming correspondent as well as a charming every thing else. We have had more letters from you than from all our other friends in America put together. I need not tell you, therefore, that I am proportionately the more obliged to you, and you will easily conceive how much pleasure it gives me to be obliged by one who has so great a share in my esteem and regard. Sally is at Madrid. She intended to write you a long letter, and I dare say has done so. I won't repeat what I am sure she must have told you. I often wish you were with us for our sake, and as often am content that you are not for yours. We go on tolerably well, flattering ourselves that we shall not long be absent, and anticipating the pleasures we are to enjoy on our return. . . . How does my dear little boy do ? I hope he goes on well. Tell me a good deal of those matters which you may readily suppose I have a curiosity to know, and the more you say of yourself the better I shall like your letters. I expected Judy would have written us a wedding letter, but I presume she has been too much engaged by a nearer correspondent to think of those on this side the ocean. Present my congratulations and best wishes to the doves. Billy, I suppose, continues as unusual as ever. How does Susan do? Give us the history of your late retreat from Elizabethtown. I fancy you began to think there |
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