1From John Jay to Peter Van Schaack, 21 November 1784 (Jay Papers)
In order to reduce to a Certainty the Substance of our ^ my ^ Conversations with Gov r Clinton on your Subject & thereby prevent misunderstandings about the Matter in Case of his Death, I w ^ r ^ ote him a Letter (the Draft of w h . I accidentally left with my Papers in Jersey) to which I rec d . a few Days ago the following answer— Insert his Letter of 8 Nov r . 1784—
2From John Jay to Peter Van Schaack, 3 September 1784 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . your favor of the 21 June last— Doctor Drummond may perhaps have an internal Sense of the Propriety of his Doubts & Scruples but on every other Principle they appear ^ to ^ me very extraordinary unaccountable. Above a Week has been employed here in Discussions between [ Brother Fœdy & myself on the one hand and ?] ^ with ^ our infallible Knight