John Jay Papers

To John Jay from Floridablanca, 5 October 1781

From Floridablanca

[Le 5 Octobre 1781]

Le Comte de Florida Blanca fait bien ses Compliments a Mr. Jay, et lui souhaite un hereux voyage; il ne manquera pas de lui ecrire d’abord qu’il sera en etat de dire quelque chose de positif sur l’objet de son dernier Billet.

[Translation]

[5 October 1781]

The Count de Florida Blanca presents his compliments to Mr. Jay, and wishes him a pleasant journey. He will write to him as soon as he can say anything positive on the subject of his last note.1

LbkCs, embedded in JJ to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 28 Apr. 1782, below, DNA: PCC, item 110, 2: 13 (EJ: 4187); NNC: JJ Lbks. 1 and 6; CSmH (EJ: 3426). Translation from RDC description begins Francis Wharton, ed., The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States (6 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1889) description ends , 5: 338.

1. See JJ’s note to Floridablanca of this same date, above.

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    To John Jay from Floridablanca, 5 October 1781
    Author
    Floridablanca, José Monino, conde de
    Recipient
    Jay, John
    Date
    5 October 1781

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    “To John Jay from Floridablanca, 5 October 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jay/01-02-02-0248. [Original source: The Selected Papers of John Jay, vol. 2, 1780–1782, ed. Elizabeth M. Nuxoll. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, p. 602.]

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