I have been honored with your favor of the 3 d . Instant, and am much obliged by your attention to the Letter it enclosed. You were not mistaken in supposing that the hand writing was mine. That Letter was enclosed in one for M r . Harrison, and sent under cover to you It gives me concern to find that you have so much trouble with American Seamen, and I much lament that it is not in my power...
2To Benjamin Franklin from John Jay, 25 October 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress Your very agreable and friendly Letters I have recd. and shall take an early Opportunity of answering fully.— I have no Reason as yet to think a Loan here will be practicable. Bills on me arrive daily. Be pleased to send me a Credit for Residue of our Salaries.— America rises in the general Estimation here. Tell Mr. Deane I have recd. four of his Letters & written...
3From John Jay to Benjamin Franklin, 25 October 1780 (Jay Papers)
Your very agreable and friendly Letters I have rec d . and shall take an early Opportunity of answering fully.— I have as no Reason as yet to think a Loan here will be practicable. Bills on me arrive daily. Be pleased to send me a Credit for Residue of our Salaries. America rises in the general Estimation here. Tell M r . Deane I have rec d . four of his Letters & written three to him. He may...
4From John Jay to Silas Deane, 26 October 1780 (Jay Papers)
At Length your first Letter contrary to my Expectations, has arrived been deliverd to me ^ arrived ^ , and my Attentions to the object of it shall not be wanting— I have also rec d . your Favor of the 18 th : Sept r . since which more of my Letters than one have I hope reached you, this being the fourth— I have read considered and reconsidered the Facts & reflections you communicate, & am...
5From John Jay to Silas Deane, 27 October 1780 (Jay Papers)
Your Favor of the 9 th . Inst has come to my Hands, hav g as usual been inspected— spain want[s] mississippi — true they are participatin in it ^ sat verbum ^ — Whenever you write to me do it in full Expectation that your Letter will be opened before I recieve ^ get ^ it, this being the Case with almost all I recieve—
6From John Jay to James Lovell, 27 October 1780 (Jay Papers)
Your Letter of the 11 July gave me much pleasure. There is a Degree of Ease and Cordiality in it which, as mere Letters of Business do not require, I am the more obliged to you for. It is true that I might write to Congress very often, indeed by every vessel, and there are many of them. But how are my Letters to get to the Sea Side? by the Post! They would be all inspected & many suppressed....
7From John Jay to Samuel Huntington, 29 October 1780 (Jay Papers)
The Duplicate Origin Your Letter of the 5 Nov r . last never reached me. The Duplicate of it together with your Favor of the 12 July were delivered to me this Day ^ are now before me ^ — I thank you for them both I am happy to hear that none of my Transactions mentioned in the Letters you allude to ^ to ^ “met with the least Disapprobation from
8To Benjamin Franklin from John Jay, 30 October 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (draft): Columbia University Library; copy: Library of Congress The Pleasure given me by your Letter of the 2d. Inst may more Easily be conceived than expressed. I am greatly obliged by your Attention to my Embarrassmts. In my last on that Subject which you recd. was a Copy of my Letter to Count D Vergennes from which it appeared that the Sum I shd. have occasion for wd. probably be...
9From John Jay to Benjamin Franklin, 30 October 1780 (Jay Papers)
The Pleasure given me by your Letter of the 2 d . Oct r . Inst may more Easily be concieved than expressed— I am greatly obliged by your Attention to the important Subject of my last I [ illegible ] ^ my Embarrassm ts .— In my last on that Subject which you rec d ^ was
10From John Jay to Silas Deane, 1 November 1780 (Jay Papers)
I have just rec d . your Letter of the 16 Oct r .— How happens it that you do not yet know me ? Time and opportunity have not been wanting— I suspect You sometimes see double — If my Regard for my Friends be measured by the Length of the Letters I write them, I confess they have often Reason to complain, especially as a constant Attention to Matters of public Concern, leaves me little Leisure...
11From John Jay to Gouverneur Morris, 5 November 1780 (Jay Papers)
Three of your Letters have reached me— The last was of the 12 July— Some of mine to you were worth little, and their Miscarriage ^ was ^ of little other ^ no ^ Consequence, than you having there was one however from Madrid which I wish may come to your Hands—it was interesting— I had heard of your misfortune and felt it— A Gentleman in France wrote me that M rs
The last particular Letter I had the honor of writing to your Excellency was dated the 26 th May, and with a Duplicate was carried to Cadis by M r . Harrison, who sent one by the Peacock, Captain Davis to Boston, and the other by the General Arnold, Captain Jenkins to Alexandria in Virginia. They both sailed in June last, and the former, I hear, arrived safe after a short Passage. I have since...
13From John Jay to Elbridge Gerry, 18 November 1780 (Jay Papers)
I have had the Pleasure of recieving your Favor of the 10 th . July, and am much obliged to you for informing us of the Situation of our Friends in Jersey when you passed thro’ it. Should M r Warren visit Madrid you may rely on his recieving from me every Mark of Attention due to an American, and to the Son of a General whose Posterity & memory have strong Claims to the Attachment and Regard...
14From John Jay to Philip Schuyler, 25 November 1780 (Jay Papers)
I have the Satisfaction of finding by the Return of the Vessel which carried my Dispatches of June last to Congress, that the Duplicate of a Letter written to you on my arrival at Cadiz and sent by her has probably reached You. As there is Reason to believe that you are still in Congress, I refer you for the political State of Affairs here to my public Letter which You will find long and...
I have had the Honor of receiving from you a Letter of the 16 th . of June, and another the 12 th . of July, 1780, with the several Papers mentioned in them. With respect to the Subjects of the first, you will find them fully discussed in my Letter to His Excellency the President of Congress, which will accompany this: The description of the Bills will I hope, answer good purposes. How far the...
Your Excellency will receive herewith enclosed certain Papers from Morocco viz t : N o . 1. containing a Letter of 21 Ap: last to me from Audibert Caille who stiles himself the Consul appointed by the Emperor for such foreign Nations as have none of their own in his Dominions, to protect the Strangers who may come to traffic in his Ports, pursuant to two Proclamations published last Year— N o...
It w d . give me great pleasure if it to have an opportunity of writing as a [ illegible ] to converse with you ^ to Congress ^ without Reserve—but Prudence ^ too often ^ Forbids it— Every Letter I receive from abroad bears Marks of Inspection, and I have too much
18From John Jay to Floridablanca, 11 December 1780 (Jay Papers)
Some of the Bills drawn on me, will probably become due, before M r Cabarrus’s operations can be brought to an Issue. So far as their Failure would injure the Credit, and relax the operations of a People actually at War with the Enemies of his Catholic Majesty, & opposing those Enemies in the very neighbourhood of his Dominions; it may certainly be considered as a matter interesting to Spain....
19From John Jay to Catharine W. Livingston, 17 December 1780 (Jay Papers)
It is uncertain whether this Letter will ever come to your Hands. two or three others are now on the way to you— I fear your late Letters have been unfortunate—the last that reached us was dated in July —since which we have not heard anything of the Family— We suspect that several Letters from our Friends were committed to M r . Laurens Care— If so they may one of these Days have the Pleasure...
20From John Jay to Robert Morris, 18 December 1780 (Jay Papers)
As I have lately written by different vessels to Congress, and my Friends, among whom I always reckon you. My chief Inducement at present is to commit the inclosed to your Care and to request the Favor of you to forward them. No Letters from America of later date than July have reached me, indeed I have had the Pleasure of receiving only one from you since we parted. Some were probably carried...
21To Benjamin Franklin from John Jay, 25 December 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress It was not till the Day before Yesterday, that I recd. Mr. Grand’s Letter, informing me of the Credit you had lodged for me, thro’ him with the Marquis d’Yranda, for £s26,459.2— Your favour of the 2d. Oct. is the last I have had the pleasure of receiving from you. Presuming that the Marquis had been apprized of the Arrangement taken with Mr. Grand for furnishing me...
22From John Jay to John de Neufville & Son, 8 January 1781 (Jay Papers)
I have had the pleasure of receiving your favor of the fourth ult. together with the one referred to in it. England has it seems declared war against the United Provinces, and that in a stile of such eminent Superiority as I am persuaded will remind your Countrymen, that the united Netherlands are not comprehended among the Territories depending on the Crown of G. Britain. The English Ministry...
Is it possible that my Letter of September requesting Congress to forbear drawing should not have arrived? Many Copies were sent by various Vessels from different Ports, and yet Bills daily arrive I have been promised 150 Thousand Dollars when it will be paid is uncertain It is hard to make brick without Straw Col. Livingston left this the Beginning of last Month with long Letters he is with...
24To Benjamin Franklin from John Jay, 21 February 1781 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress; AL (draft): Columbia University Library Your Favor of the 15 ult. with the Packets mentioned in it, arrived in good order. I regret your long Silence, tho’ I am strongly tempted to rejoice in the Cause of it—a Fit of the Gout, it is said, often prolongs Life. Affairs here begin to wear a better Aspect— I have been promised three Millions of Reals, that is one hundred...
25From John Jay to Benjamin Franklin, 21 February 1781 (Jay Papers)
Your Favor of the 15 ult. with the Packets mentioned in it, arrived in good order. I regret your long Silence, tho’ I am strongly tempted to rejoice in the Cause of it—a Fit of the Gout, it is said, often prolongs Life. Affairs here begin to wear a better Aspect— I have been promised three Millions of Reals, that is one hundred and fifty Thousand Dollars, which tho’ very unadequate to the...
26To John Adams from John Jay, 24 February 1781 (Adams Papers)
Since my last to you before you left Paris, I have been favored with no Letters from you except a few Lines sent me by Mr. Montgomery of Alicante, recommending that Gentleman as friendly to our Country. The enclosed is a Copy of an Act of Congress adopting the Regu lations proposed by the Empress of Russia, and of which I was desired to transmit Copies to you and Doctr. Franklin. Agreable to...
27From John Jay to John Adams, 24 February 1781 (Jay Papers)
Since my last to you before you left Paris, I have been favored with no Letters from you except a few Lines sent me by M r Montgomery of Alicante, recommending that Gentleman as friendly to our Country. The enclosed is a Copy of an Act of Congress adopting the Regulations proposed by the Empress of Russia, and of which I was desired to transmit Copies to you and Doct r . Franklin— Agreable to...
28From John Jay to Silas Deane, 10 March 1781 (Jay Papers)
I had Yesterday the Pleasure of rec g yours of the 23 d Ult o . Much Time has elapsed since the Date of my last Letter advising you of the arrival of the Papers about which you enquire. It is true that I have in the Interim rec d . several long and acceptable Letters from you, and that I have not replied to any of them. I do not wonder that you thought my Silence very singular; I should have...
29From John Jay to Montmorin, 10 March 1781 (Jay Papers)
M r Jay presents his Comp ts to his Ex y the Count De Momorin and has the honor of informing him that in pursuance of the Advice he was yesterday so kind as to give him, he has turned ^ his attention ^ to the Letter proposed— but tho he sees the wisdom and policy of it, yet ^ but y ^
30To Benjamin Franklin from John Jay, 11 March 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (draft): Columbia University Library; copy: Library of Congress You will find herewith enclosed an Extract of a sensible priv. Letter I recd. from the Secy of Congress on the Subject of their Finances—you will publish it or not as circumstances may render expedient. A Variety of Circumstances lead me to suspect that Negotiations for Peace are in agitation in pursuance of the Emperors...