The papers of John Jay

[Document, 1798 August 30]

101. [Document, 1798 August 30]

Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: August 30, 1798
Summary: Conveys thanks for the resolutions of the Senate and Assembly of New York. The unanimity of New York is "of vast importance in the union."
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[Document, 1798 October 17]

102. [Document, 1798 October 17]

Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: October 17, 1798
Summary: John Jay's papers on the further defense of New York will be transmitted to the Secretary at War. In the meantime, Hamilton is authorized to plan and execute the laying out of the money in question, with the reservation that this act of the executive ...
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[Document, 1800 November 10]

103. [Document, 1800 November 10]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee)
Date: November 10, 1800
Summary: Rather than give the anti federalist assembly an opportunity to reply to his speech, he took the alternative of commenting on national officers and objectives by means of a message, which customarily is not answered. Encloses a copy for Adams.
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[Document, 1800 November 24]

104. [Document, 1800 November 24]

Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: November 24, 1800
Summary: The reduction in size of the army appeared necessary; if those who oppose it now insist on lying on their backs, who are they to complain if Jacobins walk over their bellies? Among the few truths that appear in a recent pamphlet there is one he is hap...
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[Document, 1818 January 09]

105. [Document, 1818 January 09]

Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: January 09, 1818
Summary: He and his family have been reading Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry by William Wirt, in which the question of the authorship of the Address to the People of England is raised. He has never doubted John Jay's role as author, but as ...
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[Document, 1821 April 30]

106. [Document, 1821 April 30]

Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: April 30, 1821
Summary: John Jay has done all that is necessary with Mr. Duane. He has probably procured copies of some of John Jay's communications to Congress and Adams' letter to Jonathan Jackson; does not apprehend any evil that can come of either. Has just seen Jay's fi...
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[Document, 1821 June 11]

107. [Document, 1821 June 11]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee)
Date: June 11, 1821
Summary: Includes a copy of his letter to William Duane, 22 May 1821. This expresses the conclusion that the "very short" journals in Duane's possession are extracts from or abridgments of Jay's and Adams's letters to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs on the p...
Number of Images: 1

[Document, 1821 June 19]

108. [Document, 1821 June 19]

Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: June 19, 1821
Summary: Jay has acted with dignity and probity; a publication of his correspondence with William Duane would place the latter in a ridiculous light. Duane, Cobbet and Calender are so eccentric that it seems unnecessary to expose them, as posterity will forget...
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[Document, 1821 March 06]

109. [Document, 1821 March 06]

Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: March 06, 1821
Summary: Does not know what William Temple Franklin means by his reference to John Jay's and Adams's journals of the peace negotiations mentioned in the fifth volume of Franklin's works. The only journal he kept of that period was the one sent to Congress whic...
Number of Images: 3

[Document, 1821 March 20]

110. [Document, 1821 March 20]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee)
Date: March 20, 1821
Summary: Draft of MHi: 6433, with omission of the copy of the letter to William Duane.
Number of Images: 1

[Document, 1821 March 27]

111. [Document, 1821 March 27]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee)
Date: March 27, 1821
Summary: Encloses a copy of William Duane's letter to him of 16 March 1821, Philadelphia. Concerning some note in the fifth volume of the works of Franklin, he is in possession of two very short but authentic journals of John Jay and John Adams. Revelation of ...
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[Document, 1821 March 31]

112. [Document, 1821 March 31]

Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: March 31, 1821
Summary: John Jay's letter to William Duane of the 20th should remove all difficulties. Congratulates him on his firmness of nerves, demonstrated by his handwriting. Does he think the holy league of Imperial and Royal Confederates will be a second edition of t...
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[Document, 1821 May 07]

113. [Document, 1821 May 07]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee)
Date: May 07, 1821
Summary: On considering Mr. Duane's letter of March 16th, the material to which he refers as journals cannot be exact copies of Jay's and Adams' letters to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs as they are mentioned as being "very short indeed," whereas the letter...
Number of Images: 2

[Document, 1821 May 13]

114. [Document, 1821 May 13]

Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: May 13, 1821
Summary: Jay's plan of writing to Mr. Duane for copies of the "very short journals" is judicious. Is not concerned about such extracts since Congress has ordered their journals to be printed; though he is ashamed of his, that shame cannot be increased by its f...
Number of Images: 3

[Document, 1822 March 11]

115. [Document, 1822 March 11]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee)
Date: March 11, 1822
Summary: Encloses a book giving a detailed account of the proceedings and debates of the convention which recently formed a new constitution for New York.
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