1From John Jay to William Stephens Smith, 20 July 1787 (Jay Papers)
Your absence, and a constant but fruitless Expectation of being able to give You some interesting Information respecting the Subject of your private Letter of the 4 Feb: last, has from Time to Time induced me to postpone answering it particularly. Nine States have since that Period been so seldom represented in Congress, that a very inadequate Degree of attention has been paid to our foreign...