1From John Jay to Floridablanca, 2 July 1781 (Jay Papers)
When Congress were pleased to order me to Spain, with the Commission of which I have had the Honor of presenting a Copy to your Excellency, I left my Country with the most sanguine Expectations that the important objects of it would be speedily accomplished. The Proofs they had recieved of his Majesty’s Friendship for them, the Interests of a common Cause, and the Information they had recieved...
2From John Jay to Montmorin, 2 July 1781 (Jay Papers)
I have the Honor of transmitting to your Ex y herewith enclosed a copy of a Letter I have this Day written to his Ex y the Count De Florida Blanca. ^ I have thereby informed him of my ^ Being authorized to remove the objections hitherto made by the Court of Spain to a Treaty of Alliance with the United States, I have communicated it to his Ex y and again requested that ^ & again requested that...