From John Jay to Silas Deane and Benjamin Franklin, 5 January 1778
To Silas Deane and Benjamin Franklin
Poghkeepsie 5th: Jany 1778
Gentlemen
Your Favors of the 2d. 8th: & 10 June have been recd. & Copies transmitted to the Committee.1 The Subject of them certainly Merits their Attention, and I hope your Advice will be litterally complied with.
As I have not now the Honor of a Seat in Congress, having been called to an office which will confine me in this State, any Information I can give You will be far less satisfactory than what you will recieve from the Committee. This Letter will therefore be less prolix than those I usually wrote to Mr. Deane.
By a Letter recd. sometime past from my Brother,2 I find he was lately in Paris, & may be so still. If you have heard or seen any thing of him, you will oblige me greatly by sending the enclosed Letter to him I am Gentlemen with great Respect & Esteem Your obt. & h’ble Servt.
John Jay
The Hon’ble Benjamin Franklin & Silas Deane Esqrs.
ALS, PHi: Franklin (EJ: 1109). Endorsed. Enclosed letter to Sir James Jay not found.
1. The letter from the American Commissioners of 2 June 1777 is printed above. The letters of 8 and 10 June have not been found, but they were similar in content to that of 2 June. For the forwarding of a copy of the 2 June letter to the Committee for Foreign Affairs, see JJ to Robert Morris, 26 Dec. 1777, above.
2. Letter not found.