1. Thomas Jefferson enclosed a copy of this letter with his to JA of 26 Sept., below, but the enclosure has not been found. Barclay also wrote directly to JA on 11 Aug. (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 ). There he mentioned his travels and his intention to forward the treaty to Paris, once he reached the continent, and he also indicated that he had drawn a bill for £500 on JA.

2. Barclay was proceeding north along Morocco’s Atlantic coast from what is now Casablanca to Tangier. Ceuta, still a Spanish city, lies northwest of Tangier on the Mediterranean coast, just inside the Strait of Gibraltar.