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From John Jay to Montmorin, 14 March 1782

To Montmorin

[Madrid Thursday Evening 14th. March 1782.]

Mr. Jay presents his Compliments to his Excellency the Ambassador of France, and has the honor of Transmitting herewith enclosed a Copy of a Letter he has written this Evening to the Count De Florida Blanca.1

The Ambassador will perceive from this Letter in what a critical Situation Mr. Jay finds himself. He requests the favor of the Ambassador’s advice, and will do himself the honor of waiting upon him in the Morning to receive it.

LbkCs, embedded in JJ to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 28 Apr. 1782, below, DNA: PCC, item 110, 2: 94–95 (EJ: 4217); NNC: JJ Lbks. 1 and 6; CSmH (EJ: 3466).

1. JJ to Floridablanca, 14 Mar., above.

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    From John Jay to Montmorin, 14 March 1782
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    Montmorin de Saint-Hérem, Armand Marc, Comte de
    Date
    14 March 1782

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    “From John Jay to Montmorin, 14 March 1782,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jay/01-02-02-0316. [Original source: The Selected Papers of John Jay, vol. 2, 1780–1782, ed. Elizabeth M. Nuxoll. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, p. 702.]

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