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[Document, 1785 May 11]

121. [Document, 1785 May 11]

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: May 11, 1785
  • Summary: Sends letters on formation of a treaty with the Barbary pirates. Are finishing up the treaty with Prussia.
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Document, 1785 May 13

122. Document, 1785 May 13

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 May 13
  • Summary: Conversation with the Duke of Dorset: what is the reason the posts have not been evacuated? "He seemed wholly at a loss upon this subject, and did not incline to compromise himself by hazarding any opinion." What about debts an...
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Document, 1785 May 30

123. Document, 1785 May 30

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 May 30
  • Summary: Acknowledges the receipt of Jay's letter of the 31st March, with a resolution of Congress of the 21st March. Will obey the spirit of the resolution. The course of his Danish Majesty has produced a more liberal decision in Engla...
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[Document, 1785 November 01]

124. [Document, 1785 November 01]

[Document, 1785 November 01]

125. [Document, 1785 November 01]

[Document, 1785 November 01]

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[Document, 1785 November 02]

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Document, 1785 November 04

128. Document, 1785 November 04

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 November 04
  • Summary: Yesterday read an arret of the King of France, published in a Leyden gazette: a bounty promised to importers of fish from French fisheries, into French West Indies, to Spain, Portugal or Italy. French fish an important commodit...
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Document, 1785 November 05

129. Document, 1785 November 05

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 November 05
  • Summary: Negotiations with Portuguese Minister concerning a commercial treaty; discussion of grain vs. flour; lumber. Portuguese exports from Brazil not greatly needed by America (tobacco, rice, indigo, etc) but could supply wines, suga...
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Document, 1785 November 11

130. Document, 1785 November 11

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 November 11
  • Summary: Advises merchants of the United States to push their commerce to the East Indies "as far as it will go." The direct trade to be promoted by imposing heavy duties upon Indian goods via Europe. The intercourse worthy of attention...
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Document, 1785 November 24

131. Document, 1785 November 24

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 November 24
  • Summary: Shelburne's position, probability of his "coming in" unlikely. State of England "I think this nation will have dangerous convulsions" Division of America into States a subject of inquiry by Ministers and comments on division of...
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Document, 1785 November 24

132. Document, 1785 November 24

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 November 24
  • Summary: France and Holland have signed a treaty of defensive alliance; British attempts to prevent it were in vain, now well known and published; British prestige suffers from the treaty and from loss of Empire on the Seas. Pitt "is bu...
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[Document, 1785 November 26]

133. [Document, 1785 November 26]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: November 26, 1785
  • Summary: His letters before Congress; federal sentiment growing in America (encloses act of Rhode Island for giving the federal government control over foreign trade). Sends report of commissioners on removal of Negroes.
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[Document, 1785 October 11]

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[Document, 1785 October 14]

135. [Document, 1785 October 14]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: October 14, 1785
  • Summary: Letter discusses among other things the approbation of Congress of Adams' conduct and the British retention of the western posts.
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[Document, 1785 October 14]

136. [Document, 1785 October 14]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: October 14, 1785
  • Summary: Papers Adams enclosed in last letters now before Congress. Much temper and talent in Congress. Not in their power to do all that should be done, but very industrious. Adams' letter reinforces federal ideas that cannot be too strongly inculcated. Duty ...
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Document, 1785 October 15

137. Document, 1785 October 15

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 October 15
  • Summary: It appears the English do not wish "to be well with us." Can receive nothing but "certain hints" to his demands and insistences. No other minister can obtain answers to his memorials either. "The Ministry have been in a letharg...
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Document, 1785 October 17

138. Document, 1785 October 17

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 October 17
  • Summary: Neutral policy of the United States. Jealousy of France and England. Question of Alliance with America now before the English ministry: whether to yield to the demands of the United States or force them into other and closer co...
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Document, 1785 October 21

139. Document, 1785 October 21

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 October 21
  • Summary: Appointment with Carmarthen yesterday; handed his Ladyship some Memorials, conversation on the treaty subjects, no answer to most questions, comment only with regard to the posts and debts, "To be sure, nothing could be done un...
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Document, 1785 October 25

140. Document, 1785 October 25

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 October 25
  • Summary: Parliamentary debate on the navigation acts. United States may learn from the debate "the cunning of both Administration and opposition"-no man had the courage to declare himself for free and unlimited trade with the United Sta...
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