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[Document, 1785 August 03]

81. [Document, 1785 August 03]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: August 03, 1785
  • Summary: Extract of letter DNA: 2418, Foreign Letters, pertaining to salary of ministers of the United States at London.
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Document, 1785 August 06

82. Document, 1785 August 06

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 August 06
  • Summary: Changes since '83, favorable disposition at that period to America. Since then commerce has reverted to its old channels. The English boast that commerce can flow in no other. Opinions decided in favor of the navigation acts; c...
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Document, 1785 August 08

83. Document, 1785 August 08

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 August 08
  • Summary: Extracts from a bill in Parliament showing the plan to draw Ireland into a commercial block against America. Discussion of American retaliation, suggests a heavy duty on foreign ships. Vast increase of American naval power in e...
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Document, 1785 August 10

84. Document, 1785 August 10

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 August 10
  • Summary: Arret of the King of France worthy of consideration. First avowal of any sovereign, of commercial principles so generous and noble. The United States has propagated the sentiment, and have more cause of complaint that liberty i...
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Document, 1785 August 25

85. Document, 1785 August 25

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 August 25
  • Summary: Conversation with Pitt yesterday; topics: frontier posts, armistice, treaty of commerce, Negro transport. "A sprightly dialogue and in very good humor" but "no single minister chooses to commit himself, by giving any opinion wh...
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[Document, 1785 August 26]

86. [Document, 1785 August 26]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: August 26, 1785
  • Summary: Has laid Adams' letters before Congress. Adams situation has required much circumspection and Jay thinks he has acquitted himself well.
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Document, 1785 August 28

87. Document, 1785 August 28

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 August 28
  • Summary: Enclosing statutes prohibiting exportation of enumerated tools used in manufacturing. "I have transcribed this catalogue, because I think it is very proper that gentlemen should attend to it. It shews the spirite of this countr...
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Document, 1785 August 29

88. Document, 1785 August 29

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 August 29
  • Summary: "Anecdotes of commercial history...taken from an Irish publication, which compares the conduct of the present administration towards Ireland to that of the Stuarts...we may learn from it what probability there is of Mr. Crawfor...
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Document, 1785 August 30

89. Document, 1785 August 30

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 August 30
  • Summary: Adams believes it more and more his opinion that the Utopian procedure -that they manage their exportation themselves rather than letting foreigners come and deal in it, that they can better understand the art of navigation - i...
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Document, 1785 August 31

90. Document, 1785 August 31

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 August 31
  • Summary: Newspapers and pamphlets the only source of information, which is collected from and rediscussed in coffee houses. Adams informed Pitt that America not divided, but is capable of uniting to enact retaliatory prohibitions and na...
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[Document, 1785 December 05]

91. [Document, 1785 December 05]

Document, 1785 December 09

92. Document, 1785 December 09

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 December 09
  • Summary: Conversation with Carmarthen re: discharge of a sailor and "the behavior of a captain of a man of war, at Boston."(Also Encloses copy of Nov 30 Memorial to Carmarthen)
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Document, 1785 December 15

93. Document, 1785 December 15

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 December 15
  • Summary: "Mysterious movements" of General Faucett, General Arnold, Joseph Brandt; la Fayette and Colonel Smith's travels; the public press writes disparagingly of the United States to discourage emigration; newspapers publish political...
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Document, 1785 December n.d.

94. Document, 1785 December n.d.

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 December n.d.
  • Summary: CIPHER Anxious to convey "the impossibility of doing anything satisfactory with this nation." And so will write things which Congress should know but keep secret. Character of the King, of Pitt, and other statesmen. Stocks high...
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[Document, 1785 February 11]

95. [Document, 1785 February 11]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: February 11, 1785
  • Summary: Sends Adams a ratification of the contract with Wilhelm and Ian Willink for a loan of two millions of guilders (9 March 1784). Will write to Adams soon on the London mission. Asks Adams for frequent information on affairs in Europe. France demands Lon...
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[Document, 1785 February 11]

96. [Document, 1785 February 11]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: February 11, 1785
  • Summary: Sends Adams a ratification of the contract with Wilhelm and Ian Willink for a loan of two millions of guilders (9 Mr. 1784). Will write to Adams soon on the London mission. Asks Adams for frequent information on affairs in Europe. France demands Longc...
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[Document, 1785 February 19]

97. [Document, 1785 February 19]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: February 19, 1785
  • Summary: Requests that the enclosed letter for Mr. Carmichael may be given to the Spanish Ambassador to be sent to Spain.
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[Document, 1785 January 14]

98. [Document, 1785 January 14]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: January 14, 1785
  • Summary: Congress now in session and considering all foreign letters. Judges appointed to settle the dispute between Massachusetts and New York. Rumor that the Cherokees will attack the settlements in Kentucky and that Spain encourages them.
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[Document, 1785 January 14]

99. [Document, 1785 January 14]

Document, 1785 July 19

100. Document, 1785 July 19

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 July 19
  • Summary: Pleased with an act of New York legislation investing Congress with power to make commercial treaties; English disbelief in American solidity. English opinions of taste and prosperity in England, disposition to war with America...
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