1. Carmichael enclosed copies of letters of 26 March to him from the Conde d’Expilly and John Lamb that are at that date in the Adams Papers. According to Lamb, he and Paul R. Randall arrived in Algiers on 25 March, but only through d’Expilly’s intervention did they obtain “liberty to land,” and then only after their trunks were searched. Lamb, who had not yet reported to either commissioner, asked Carmichael to relay news of his progress, adding, “Do not leave me in this Country & not write me.”

Thomas Barclay also wrote to JA on 5 April (Adams Papers description begins Manuscripts and other materials, 1639–1889, in the Adams Manuscript Trust collection given to the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1956 and enlarged by a few additions of family papers since then. Citations in the present edition are simply by date of the original document if the original is in the main chronological series of the Papers and therefore readily found in the microfilm edition of the Adams Papers (APM). description ends ). In Barclay’s very similar letter to Thomas Jefferson of the same day, he provided a report on the Algerian mission similar to Carmichael’s, but he also noted that the American captives had “behaved with the utmost decorum [and] were made extreamly happy” by Lamb’s arrival (Jefferson, Papers description begins The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, and others, Princeton, N.J., 1950– . description ends , 9:376–377). With his letter to JA, Barclay included a copy of his letter to Jefferson, referring JA to it for news of Lamb’s mission. In addition Barclay wrote that Spain was close to joining a defensive compact with France, Sweden, and the Netherlands and thought that Britain would form a counter-treaty with “some of the Northern powers.” He indicated that he would keep JA informed concerning his mission to Morocco. In a 15 April letter he informed JA that he was about to leave Madrid and had drawn a bill of £250 (both Adams Papers description begins Manuscripts and other materials, 1639–1889, in the Adams Manuscript Trust collection given to the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1956 and enlarged by a few additions of family papers since then. Citations in the present edition are simply by date of the original document if the original is in the main chronological series of the Papers and therefore readily found in the microfilm edition of the Adams Papers (APM). description ends ).

The letter from Carmichael to the commissioners and Barclay’s 5 April letter to JA were received while Jefferson was in London and probably arrived in the same packet, for Barclay’s letter to JA is endorsed “Mr Barclay & Mr Carmichael.” Jefferson replied to Carmichael’s letter on 5 May, following his return to Paris (Jefferson, Papers description begins The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, and others, Princeton, N.J., 1950– . description ends , 9:448–449).