To John Jay from Benjamin Franklin, 15 September 1784
From Benjamin Franklin
Passy Sept. 15. 1784
Dear Sir,
I have just seen in the English Newspapers that you and your Family are safe arrived in New York, which gives me great Pleasure. I send you herewith some of our latest News Papers. Mr Hartley is at length recalled, having remained here Six Months without doing or proposing any thing towards the Commercial Treaty.1 Messrs. Adams & Jefferson are here,2 and we go on together very well. Permit me to say my Love to Mrs Jay and my young Friend.3 I am ever Yours most affectionately,
B Franklin
I shall write you fully per next Packet.
Honble. John Jay Esqr
1. After ignoring a number of orders recalling him, David Hartley left Paris the last week of September. See Carmarthen to Hartley, 20 Aug. and 5 Sept. 1784; William Fraser to Hartley, 17 Sept. 1784; Hartley to Fraser, 8 Oct. 1784, all in UkLPR: FO 4/ 2. For the impasse over the commercial treaty, see the editorial note “Negotiating a Trade Agreement” on pp. 373–86.
2. Thomas Jefferson reached Paris on 6 Aug., and JA returned from London with his reunited family a week later. , 7: 3; , 3: 171n.
3. Probably either the Jays’ two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Maria, or JJ’s nephew, Peter Jay Munro.