1. This is an updated copy of a memorandum originally enclosed in Lovell’s letter of 20 Feb., above, but was the only version to reach JJ. See the notes to that document. For the correspondence Congress received, see JJ to the President of Congress, 3 Mar. (two letters), 26 May, 10 July, and 16 Sept. 1780, all above; and, for the remaining letters listed, RDC description begins Francis Wharton, ed., The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States (6 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1889) description ends , 3: 509–10, 526–27, 530–31, 735–36, 740. For Carmichael’s letters to Congress, see RDC description begins Francis Wharton, ed., The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States (6 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1889) description ends , 3: 507, 736–39, 865–66; 4: 38–41, 51–54, 69–72, 99–100, 164–68, 198.