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Dr Grandpapa 1786 Apr. 7

I would have wrote to you before now, but papa expected to go to Elizabeth Town & take me with him last Saturday, the weather proving bad we were prevented: pa-pa still intends going tomorrow, but if it blows so hard as it does this morning. I am afraid we shall be disappointed again. Mama also in-tends paying Grandmama a visit as soon as the weather is setled[sic]. We have this day begun out house again. Our stable is quite furnis^h^ed but the other night two of the Tiles were blown off ^the^ roof two or three nights ago one of the willows which Papa has lately procured was stolen out of the garden, & the Cow has eat off the tops of those which

he had before; but he says that next spring

you may take your choice either to have the old

ones which will sprout again from the roots, or

some which he had lately set out. Please to give me love to Grandmama & thank her kindly for the Letter she was so obliging as to send me: The same Reasons that has prevented my writing to you has Prevented my acknowledging her favor.

I am your most

Dutiful & affectionate Grand[son]

Peter Augustus Jay

New York April 7^th 1786

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Elizabethtown 22 Decr. 1787

My Dear P,

Of all the letters in the alphabet, the

P is my favorite (tho’ it is doubled in the Pope

whom I do not like) because it is the [first letter]

of your name. But as to the next preceding one,

I abominate it, not only because it is the initial

letter of the name of Oliver Cromwell who was a great

hypocrite but because all other hypocrites, when

they are detected in their duplicity cry out O.

Your grandmama sends you a pair

of Boots, which I hope you will accept though

they come with two O’s in them; Your Grandpapa

desires you to come to ElizabethTown as soon as

Papa thinks proper to try there upon the Pony.

I wish you a Merry Christmas & after the holy-

days, an asiduous [sic] application to your books.

Master Peter Augustus Jay