From John Jay to Floridablanca, 27 November 1781
To Floridablanca
[Madrid 27 Novr. 1781—]
Mr Jay presents his Compliments to his Excellency the Count de Florida Blanca, & has the Honor of transmitting herewith enclosed, two Boston Gazettes, of the 20 & 27 Septr. last; & a Copy of a Letter he has recieved from Mr. Harrison dated at Cadiz the 20th. Instant.1 These Papers contain all the american Intelligence which Mr Jay has recieved by the Vessels lately arrived from thence.—
Mr Jay has recd. the Letter which His Excellency did him the Honor to write Yesterday, by Mr. Gardoqui,2 and is greatly obliged by the Permission granted to Capt. Hill to depart, as well as by the polite Terms in which that Circumstance is communicated to Mr. Jay—
AL, with Spanish translation, SpMaAHN: Estado, leg. 3884, exp. 20, doc. 6 (EJ: 12132). LbkCs of E embedded in JJ to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 28 Apr. 1782, below, DNA: PCC, item 110, 2: 34 (EJ: 4196); NNC: JJ Lbks. 1 and 6; CSmH (EJ: 3445).
1. See Harrison to JJ, 20 Nov. 1781, C in JJ’s hand, SpMaAHN: Estado, leg. 2884, exp. 20, doc. 4 (EJ: 12132), in which Harrison reported that de Grasse and French and American troops had block-aded Cornwallis at Yorktown and that everyone was “sanguine in Expectation of a Bourgoynade.”
2. See Floridablanca’s letter of 26 Nov., above; and Gardoqui to JJ, [26 Nov. 1781], AL, NNC (EJ: 8208).