From John Jay to Diego de Gardoqui, 6 October 1786
To Diego de Gardoqui
Office for foreign Affairs 6th. October 1786
Sir
The Letter you did me the Honor to write the 25th. May last was immediately laid before Congress.1 The Subjects of our Negociation have frequently since engaged their Attention and Consideration, and I have now the Pleasure to inform you that in consequence of some recent Acts I find myself more in Capacity than I was to make and receive Propositions relative to certain Matters in Difference between our Countries. I shall be happy if our Negociations should be so fortunate as to terminate in a Treaty satisfactory to both.
As soon as some Business which I must immediately Dispatch shall be completed, which will be in the Course of a few Days, it will give me Pleasure to renew our Conferences, and I will do myself the Honor of giving you Notice of it without Delay.—With great Consideration and Esteem I have the Honor to be &c.
(signed) John Jay
Senr. Don Diego De Gardoqui
Encargado de Negocios of his Catholic Majesty.—
C, enclosed in LS, JJ to the President of Congress, 11 Apr. 1787, DNA: PCC, item 81, 3: 227–28 (EJ: 3970); Dft, NNC (EJ: 5869); LbkC, DNA: PCC, item 125, 127–28 (EJ: 3720).
1. See Gardoqui to JJ, 25 May 1786, above; and the editorial note “Negotiations with Gardoqui Reach an Impasse” above.