211New York Delegates to Alexander McDougall, 20 February 1779 (Jay Papers)
We had the Pleasure of receiving your Favor by M r Barclay of the 11 th Instant and beg you to be assurd that we shall always be ready to facilitate your Command and support your applications for Assistance. The Commander in Chief has spent some time here with a Committee of Conference. He is vested with the fullest power to take every Department & Detachment of the Army, under his own...
212From John Jay to Alexander McDougall, 28 March 1779 (Jay Papers)
I have the Pleasure of acknowledging the Rec t of your Favor of the 21 st : Instant. Your Sentiments on the Subject of it coincide perfectly with my own. Great Prudence is necessary & Care should be taken in what is committed, to Paper.— Accidents & Discoveries may & often arise from ^ Letters meeting with ^ Accidents which the most cautious ^ wisest ^