1From John Jay to William Carmichael, 23 September 1788 (Jay Papers)
I have had the Honor of rec g & communicating to Congress your Letter of the 29 April last, as well as your former one preceding ones of 3 July & 19th Aug t . The Intelligence which accompanied the first of the two last is relative from our unfortunate Captives at Algiers is interesting, and there doubtless was propriety in your forwarding it to this office. As to all Questions as to the Paper...
2From John Jay to William Carmichael, 2 October 1789 (Jay Papers)
I have been fav d . with your Letters of the 5. 8. & 28 of Nov r . & 2 d Dec r . in the last year, and of the 6 May in this— My two Letters of the 9 Sept r . and the 24 Novem r . 1788 covered Papers of Importance, and as yet I am uninformed whether they have come safe to your Hands. The long period ^Time^ before their Dissolution, during which the late Congress had not
3From John Jay to William Carmichael, 14 August 1783 (Jay Papers)
I have this moment rec d . a Letter from His Ex y . the Count de Montmorin, in w h . he mentions your having communicated to him my Letter to you of the Ult., and also favors me with his Sentiments on the Subject of it. As that Letter was written by me in a public Capacity, to you in a public Capacity, and on public Business, I endulged the Expectation of rec g an Answer to it from You. When...
4From John Jay to William Carmichael, 27 June 1780 (Jay Papers)
It is with great Reluctance that I can ^ ever ^ prevail upon myself to tell you that what ^ any thing ^ you do is not right ^ in my Opinion im ^ proper, and especially when my tell g
5From John Jay to William Carmichael, 4 January 1787 (Jay Papers)
My last to you was written on the 24 November & together with the was committed to the Care of M r Rendon, who then expected to sail from Philad a . ^ take his passage in ^ a spanish Frigate which was then soon to sail from Philadelphia. But the weather becoming so severe as to freeze the Delaware, he has Returned to this Place an in order to go in a Merchant Vessel, that will leave this port...
6From John Jay to William Carmichael, 2 October 1780 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . yours Le Guerre just now ^ this afternoon ^ gave me a Letter from you dated to Day enclosing a Bundle ^ parcel ^ of Bills which I dare say are right—those from of Nesbit and Williams I return en enclosed as you desire— As to the Residue of the Letter it w d
7Instructions to William Carmichael, 27 January 1780 (Jay Papers)
You will proceed to Madrid with convenient Expedition, and and if M r . Gerard with whom you set out should travel too very deliberately I advise you to go on before him. The Propriety of this however will depend much on Circumstances, & must be determined by your own Discretion. And I [ illegible ] On delivering my Letter to Mr. Galvaise, it would be proper to intimate to him that I presumed...
8From John Jay to William Carmichael, 21 February 1780 (Jay Papers)
Your favor of the 15 th Inst, was delivered to me last Evening. I congratulate you on your safe arrival, and hope the agreeable circumstances of your present Situation will compensate for the fatigue & trouble you experienced on the way to it. It gives me pleasure to hear the French Embassador has been so obliging, & am glad to find from your letter that your Attentions to him at least keep...
9From John Jay to William Carmichael, 16–17 June 1780 (Jay Papers)
On coming to this Place last M ^ my Arrival here I unexpectedly ^ found that M rs . Jay had been and still was very much indisposed. The Col. had written for me, but neither his Letter, nor mine from Aranjues to M rs . Jay, had ever come to Hand. She is now ^ somewhat ^ better tho far from well, having more Spirits than Strength, and rather an Exemption from Constant pain, than Health. In this...
10From John Jay to William Carmichael, 3 August 1782 (Jay Papers)
The Copies brought by M r De Clonard of your Letters of 28 May & 10 8 June, gave me the first & only notice I have had of their originals, neither of which ever came to my Hands—nor have I rec d . the one you mention to have written on the 17 June. The above two Copies, a Letter of 3 d . July (also brought by M r De Clonard) ^ & another of 9. July, ^ being the only ones from You that have...
11From John Jay to William Carmichael, 29 June 1780 (Jay Papers)
Perhaps an opp y may offer of send g you this before you leave aranjues. I wish it may. I assure you it was far from my Intention to give you Pain or Uneasiness by my Letter of the 27 Inst. It w d have given me less Trouble and more pleasure to have talked the Matter over with you after your Return, but a Letter was necessary to suspend the Conference w h . I understood was to have been held...
12From John Jay to William Carmichael, 28 January 1784 (Jay Papers)
Your letter of the 12 th . October: was delivered to me in England at a time when I was so ill, as to write only to M rs . Jay— That Circumstance and the Constant Expectation of receiving the Letter you intended to write when the Appraisement you was making of my Effects should be finished, but which I have not yet rec d ., are the Causes which have delayed my writing to you since.— It is not...