[Document, 1778 December n.d.]
- Title
- [Document, 1778 December n.d.]
- Library Location
- Name
- Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866 (Author)
- Format
- correspondence
- Digital Project
- Papers of John Jay
- Date
- 1778 December n.d.
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- 8 pages
- Subjects
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Jay, John, 1745-1829
- Summary
- Contains commentaries, notes, and quotations on questions of foreign policy; notes on an opinion of John Jay's character and the reasons he was selected as President of the Continental Congress. MS [transcripts].Includes: n.d. [1778?], Reflections on the question of whether the United States should be influenced by the spirit of conquest; December [1778?], Conrad Gerard's opinion on the Floridas; 2 December [1778?], A Character of John Jay by Conrad Gerard; 25 December 1778, Proposal of a Truce between England and the United States, made to Gerard (extract); 21 October 1780, New Instructions to John Jay [from Marbois] (with notes); 17 July 1783, John Jay to Gouverneur Morris (extract, with notes).
- Identifier
- columbia.jay.05357