Title
[Document, 1785 June 23]
Library Location
Name
Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
United States. Continental Congress (Addressee)
Format
correspondence
Digital Project
Papers of John Jay
Date
June 23, 1785
Language
English
Physical Description
3 pages
Subjects
United States--History--1783-1865; Jay, John, 1745-1829
Summary
Jay wants to send the following letter to Adams in cypher: Men and states are influenced alternately by their interest and their passion without reducing either of them to a system and thus impossible to predict which predominate at any one time. Britain may still be ill disposed toward us. We may be able to use the rivalry between Britain and Spain to control the Caribbean to obtain from the British the right to cut logwood in Honduras and Campeachy. The matter should be handled with caution and secrecy. It would meet with opposition from some quarters.
Identifier
columbia.jay.03841