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To Benjamin Franklin from John Jay, 13 July 1781

From John Jay

Copy: Library of Congress

Madrid 13. July 1781.

Dear Sir,

I have received your Favor8 respecting the Pump at aldgate.

I have since (two Days Ago) recd. Letters from Congress assuring me that no further Bills shall be drawn upon me.9

These Dispatches have given me so much Business that I am obliged to desire Mr. Carm1 to write you the News, and to assure you without further additions to this Letter that I am most sincerely, Your aff. obliged Friend & Servant.

(signed) John Jay.

His Excelly. Doctr. Franklin.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

8. Of June 30, above.

9. This probably refers to the congressional resolution of April 27, 1781, that no more bills drawn on Jay or Henry Laurens would be sold: JCC, XX, 451.

1. Carmichael, whose letter is immediately above.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from John Jay, 13 July 1781
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    13 July 1781

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from John Jay, 13 July 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-35-02-0197. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 35, May 1 through October 31, 1781, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999, p. 261.]

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