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88 CORRESPONDENCE OF [1820

your better half and Caroline as mother is too busy reel-
ing yarn to write by this days post—
Adieu and believe me ever affectionately yours

J P De Lancey
James Cooper Esq^r, Cooperstown.

FROM WILLIAM JAY

Bedford, 20th June, 1820

Dear James,

I see by the papers rec^d by the last mail, that I am
appointed First Judge. I am very sensible of the friendly
part you have taken, in procuring this appointment for
me; and I beg you will accept my sincere acknowledge-
ments for this and the many other marks of kindness you
have shewn me.

That our friendship which commenced in boyhood,
may continue uninterrupted through life, and be finally
perfected in another and better world, is the earnest wish
of

Your affec^te friend

William Jay
James Cooper Esq^r, Scarsdale

William Jay was a son. of Chief Justice Jay, who was governor
of New York from 1795 to 1801. He was at school with Cooper
at St. Peter's in Albany, and with him at Yale College, where he
graduated in 1807.

He was horn in 1789, the year of Cooper's birth, and died in
1858. Judge Cooper and Governor Jay were friends, and for fifty
years their sons, William Jay and Fenimore Cooper, were very
intimate.



	88 CORRESPONDENCE OF [1820 your better half and Caroline as mother is too busy reel- ing yarn to write by this days post— Adieu and believe me ever affectionately yours J P De Lancey James Cooper Esq^r, Cooperstown.

	FROM WILLIAM JAY Bedford, 20th June, 1820 Dear James, I see by the papers rec^d by the last mail, that I am appointed First Judge. I am very sensible of the friendly part you have taken, in procuring this appointment for me; and I beg you will accept my sincere acknowledge- ments for this and the many other marks of kindness you have shewn me. That our friendship which commenced in boyhood, may continue uninterrupted through life, and be finally perfected in another and better world, is the earnest wish of Your affec^te friend William Jay James Cooper Esq^r, Scarsdale William Jay was a son. of Chief Justice Jay, who was governor of New York from 1795 to 1801. He was at school with Cooper at St. Peter's in Albany, and with him at Yale College, where he graduated in 1807. He was horn in 1789, the year of Cooper's birth, and died in 1858. Judge Cooper and Governor Jay were friends, and for fifty years their sons, William Jay and Fenimore Cooper, were very intimate.