Newyork[, N.Y.] 26 May 1859.

MY DEAR SIR,

I have read with much interest your discourse on the life & Character of my Father.¹William Jay. I beg to [illegible] to you the thanks which I had hardly an opportunity fully to express at the close of the evening when we listened to its delivery. I would like to have 200 copies of it in pamphlet form if it is proposed so to publish it, or if not then 200 copies of your paper containing it. for circulation among my own & my father friends.

I am Dear Sir, Very Truly Yours

JOHN JAY

[P.S.] I beg to enclose a check to cover the cost of the copies.

ALS: General Correspondence File, reel 1, frames 670-71, FD Papers, DLC.