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136 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
severe commercial restrictions which oppose our
trade to her islands. Her liberality would be contrasted to British ill-humour, and unavoidably produce correspondent impressions.
The present Congress promises well. There are
many respectable members here. Federal ideas seem
to prevail greatly among them, and, I may add, a
strong disposition to conciliation and unanimity.
Your letter on the subject of leave to return is, with
a variety of foreign papers, referred to a committee.
They have as yet made no report, and, therefore, I
can give you no satisfactory intelligence on that head.
I lately saw Mrs. Bache in good health and spirits at
Philadelphia, and I am persuaded no less anxious for
your return than you can be. Mrs. Jay and our little
family are at Elizabethtown, and her last letters in
form me they were all well. Be pleased to make my
compliments to your grandsons.
I am, dear sir,
Your obliged and obedient servant,
John Jay.
francis hopkinson to jay.
Philada-, Januy- 12, 1785.
Dear Sir:
Confiding in the place I flatter myself I hold in your
good opinion I take the liberty of suggesting an idea which
many of my friends have urged to me, viz. that I might be
proposed as one of the Commissioners for building the
Federal City of Congress. I have indeed no great technical
knowledge in Architecture, but as I have a good deal of
leisure, some little taste and a talent for contrivance I think
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 3 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Place of Publication | New York, London |
| Date | [1890-93] |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000171 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 136 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. severe commercial restrictions which oppose our trade to her islands. Her liberality would be contrasted to British ill-humour, and unavoidably produce correspondent impressions. The present Congress promises well. There are many respectable members here. Federal ideas seem to prevail greatly among them, and, I may add, a strong disposition to conciliation and unanimity. Your letter on the subject of leave to return is, with a variety of foreign papers, referred to a committee. They have as yet made no report, and, therefore, I can give you no satisfactory intelligence on that head. I lately saw Mrs. Bache in good health and spirits at Philadelphia, and I am persuaded no less anxious for your return than you can be. Mrs. Jay and our little family are at Elizabethtown, and her last letters in form me they were all well. Be pleased to make my compliments to your grandsons. I am, dear sir, Your obliged and obedient servant, John Jay. francis hopkinson to jay. Philada-, Januy- 12, 1785. Dear Sir: Confiding in the place I flatter myself I hold in your good opinion I take the liberty of suggesting an idea which many of my friends have urged to me, viz. that I might be proposed as one of the Commissioners for building the Federal City of Congress. I have indeed no great technical knowledge in Architecture, but as I have a good deal of leisure, some little taste and a talent for contrivance I think |
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