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To John Jay from Benjamin Vaughan, 3 November 1783

From Benjamin Vaughan

[London] Novr. 3 1783.

My Dear sir,

I shall not sett off till tomorrow afternoon, by which time you may be better. If I should hear nothing farther from you, I shall without fail deliver your message at Bowood Park, which is near Calne in Wiltshire, on one of the two roads to Bath.

I shall certainly, if living & well, be back before Tuesday, to get you & Mr Bingham, & Mr Adams & Son,1 into the House of Lords on the 11th: instt.

Ld. Shelburne in the letter you saw,2 says that he shall be very happy to shew the American Commissioners every mark of respect regard in his power, in their public or private characters; that he looks upon the interest of the two countries to be still the same; & considers any distraction which arises in America, as essentially affecting Great Britain.— This is over and above the former letter.

Mrs Vaughan is so languid & exhausted, that it will be out of her power to receive Mrs Bingham, till she is better or I am returned; which I beg you would take the trouble to signify to Mr & Mrs Bingham with our best regards. I am, my dear sir, your faithful & affectionate

Benjn: Vaughan

ALS, NNC (EJ: 8132).

1JA and John Quincy Adams, who were also in England at the time, visited with JJ at Bingham’s residence on 27 Oct. and were present when the king spoke at the opening of Parliament on 11 Nov. and the Prince of Wales was presented to the House of Lords on the occasion of his 21st birthday. See Adams, Diary description begins Lyman H. Butterfield et al., eds., Diary and Autobiography of John Adams (4 vols.; Cambridge, Mass., 1961) description ends , 3: 149, 150.

2Letter not found.

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