1From John Adams to Robert R. Livingston, 15 July 1783 (Adams Papers)
these enclosures are numbered 4 through 8, indicating that there may have been three more, but if so they have not been identified.ca. 8 July
2From John Adams to Robert R. Livingston, 3 July 1783 (Adams Papers)
In the Letterbook is the notation by John Thaxter: “July 41 July.
3From John Adams to Robert R. Livingston, 10 July 1783 (Adams Papers)
In the Letterbook is the notation by John Thaxter: “July 11. Both are replies to Livingston’s 4 Jan. letter to John Jay, which was in turn a reply to Jay’s letters of 4 and 18 Sept. and 13 Oct. 1782. It was Jay’s letter of the 18th that had enclosed François Barbé-Marbois’ intercepted letter mentioned in the fourth paragraph above. Specifically ...statement in his 4 Jan. 1783 letter that if...
4From John Adams to Robert R. Livingston, 5 July 1782 (Adams Papers)
, above. This letter and the contracts in turn were enclosed with the loan consortium’s letter of 11 July to Robert R. Livingston (10 July
5From John Adams to Robert R. Livingston, 13 July 1783 (Adams Papers)
4 Because the Countries, belonging to this Power upon the Adriatic Sea, & in the Austrian Flanders, are no inconsiderable Sources of Commerce for America— And, if the present negotiations, between the two Imperial Courts, & the... July 1783.”
6From John Adams to Robert R. Livingston, 25 July 1783 (Adams Papers)
in a letter of 4 Feb., that the Netherlands was more important to France than Tobago and that if the Comte de Vergennes did not wish to see the newfound Franco-Dutch relationship destroyed he needed to recognize and act on this (vol....9 July letter to Livingston
7From John Adams to Robert R. Livingston, 31 July [1783] (Adams Papers)
..., to write a circular Letter to every Power in Europe, as soon as the definitive Treaty should be signed and transmit with it a Printed copy of the Treaty. In the Letter, Congress should announce that on the 4 of July 1776. the United States, had declared themselves a sovereign State, under the Style and Title of the United States of America; ...Affairs.”; endorsed: “Mr Adams 31 July...
8From John Adams to Robert R. Livingston, 7 July 1783 (Adams Papers)
In the Letterbook is the notation by John Thaxter: “July 11, note 4, below). However, neither the source nor the nature of the rumors that
9From John Adams to Robert R. Livingston, 23–24 July 1783 (Adams Papers)
wrote “The Hague July 23 1783.— I Satt off in october for Paris where I arrived on the 26th of Oct. 1782, where the Peace has been made and I returned here last Night.” See also note 2.. He had not seen his son for over two years, since 2 July 1781 when set out for St. Petersburg as Francis Dana’s secretary. In his Diary entry for 22 July 1783,
10The American Peace Commissioners to Robert R. Livingston, 27 July 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...Hartley’s [June 19] propositions for the definitive treaty and the commissioners’ answers of June 29; the commissioners’ proposals of June 29; and the Commissioners to Hartley, July 17. They also sent an extract of a May 9 letter from Fox to Hartley, asking him to request of the commissioners that they intercede in obtaining relief for a group of British merchants who had twice petitioned...