1From John Jay to Diego de Gardoqui, 7 October 1789 (Jay Papers)
I this Day received the Letter which you did me the Honor to write, dated the 3 d . of this Month. — Circumstances having rendered it necessary that I should continue, though not officially, to superintend the Department of foreign Affairs until relieved by a Successor, permit me to assure you, that Don Joseph de Viar shall always experience from me in that and every other Capacity, the...