Papers of John Adams, volume 21
As the Week is approaching when you are to be expected at
Philadelphia, I take this Opportunity to present to you and your Lady the
Compliments of the Season, and request the honour and pleasure of your
Company at our House during your Visit to this City.1 We live in Arch Street at the
Corner of fourth Street where your old bed is ready for you in as good a
Chamber and much more conveniently Situated for your Attendance on your
Court and intercourse with your Friends. Mrs Jay
We hope will bear you company and in this request Mrs Adams joins with me. The Winter is very mild: Politicks dull.
Speculation brisk. As We have little Interest in these Things We shall have
a freer scope for Friendship. I am, my dear sir with Sincere / Esteem
yours
RC (NNC:John Jay Papers); addressed: “The Chief
Justice / of the United States / New York”; internal address: “Chief
Justice Jay”; endorsed: “Vice Presid. Adams / 4 Jany / and. 10
Jany / 1792.”; notation by
JA: “Free / John Adams.”
Still busy riding the court circuit, Jay departed
Rye, N.Y., on 2 Aug. and arrived in Philadelphia two days later for the
Supreme Court’s session. He lodged at Mary Gibbons’ boardinghouse,
located on Spruce Street between Second and Third Streets (Jay, Selected Papers
, 5:438, 439).