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j82 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
to request their personal favours. I flatter myself you
will perceive as clearly as I do, the propriety of observing this delicacy, and therefore that you will
impute my declining to apply to Mr. Gardoqui, on
the subject mentioned in your note of last evening, to
that consideration, and not to any reluctance to serve
you; for as I shall always rejoice in your welfare, so
I shall always regret every obstacle which may restrain me from measures tending to promote it.1
Your affectionate brother,
John Jay.
jay to governor clinton.
q t New York, 26th January, 1786.
Experience convinces me that to do justice to my
official business, it is necessary to devote all my time
and attention to it; as it hence becomes improper for
me to engage in any affairs that must necessarily call
me off from the duties of my office, I find myself con^
strained to resign the appointment with which I have
been honoured by this State as one of their agents
for managing their controversy with Massachusetts.*
The number and acknowledged abilities of the other
agents render this resignation of no further importance than that it deprives me of the satisfaction I
always derive from serving my native State, to which
1 This note appears in reply to one from Jay's brother Frederick, who desired
a recommendation from the Spanish minister to secure the sale of the cargo of
a Spanish vessel lately arrived at New York in distress.
8 Respecting boundaries and the proprietorship of the western part of New
York State.
| 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 | 00000217 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | j82 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. to request their personal favours. I flatter myself you will perceive as clearly as I do, the propriety of observing this delicacy, and therefore that you will impute my declining to apply to Mr. Gardoqui, on the subject mentioned in your note of last evening, to that consideration, and not to any reluctance to serve you; for as I shall always rejoice in your welfare, so I shall always regret every obstacle which may restrain me from measures tending to promote it.1 Your affectionate brother, John Jay. jay to governor clinton. q t New York, 26th January, 1786. Experience convinces me that to do justice to my official business, it is necessary to devote all my time and attention to it; as it hence becomes improper for me to engage in any affairs that must necessarily call me off from the duties of my office, I find myself con^ strained to resign the appointment with which I have been honoured by this State as one of their agents for managing their controversy with Massachusetts.* The number and acknowledged abilities of the other agents render this resignation of no further importance than that it deprives me of the satisfaction I always derive from serving my native State, to which 1 This note appears in reply to one from Jay's brother Frederick, who desired a recommendation from the Spanish minister to secure the sale of the cargo of a Spanish vessel lately arrived at New York in distress. 8 Respecting boundaries and the proprietorship of the western part of New York State. |
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