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1. Document, 1779 April 29
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1779 April 29
- Summary: Congratulates John Jay on his elevation to the presidency. Asks that Dumas be given a commission as United States charge des affairs to the United Provinces of theNetherlands. Franklin has approved this, and has promised to wri...
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2. Document, 1779 April 29
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, James, Sir, 1732-1815 (Addressee) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1779 April 29
- Summary: Includes five letters to James Jay, one letter and 62 dispatches to John Jay. InFrench.
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3. Document, 1785 October 22
- Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Addressee)
- Date: 1785 October 22
- Summary: An act of Congress expresses appreciation for Mr. DumasÆ efforts. Will send the public papers as soon as there is a direct means of getting them to Holland. Send frequent letters.
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4. Document, 1786 April 11
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1786 April 11
- Summary: Paints a picture of the various scenes happening there. Description of the upheavals of society-acts of clemency and then acts of severity. Attempt of lese majeste failed and had salutary effect in flushing out the conspirators...
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5. Document, 1786 April 23
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1786 April 23
- Summary: Last Wednesday the French ambassador received the enclosed declaration, which made a big splash. The king (of Prussia) will no longer take open steps to support the pretensions of the prince, having promised the French court to...
- Number of Images: 2
6. Document, 1786 December 02
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1786 December 02
- Summary: M. de Rayneval seems always in tune with the general principles of the adopted system. The power of the Captain General has been intermingled with the accessory powers of the present Captain General. Particular question of mili...
- Number of Images: 3
7. Document, 1786 December 14
- Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Addressee)
- Date: 1786 December 14
- Summary: Had not replied because waiting for orders of Congress on matters in DumasÆ letters. Delay in Congress about foreign affairs because of annual election and absence of members -- stagnation will probably continue some time. Cong...
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8. Document, 1786 December 22
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1786 December 22
- Summary: The alliance between the Netherlands and France continues to hold; it is in the true interest of the two parties. The best-informed claim that the republic will abolish the regulations in the provinces, that the command of The ...
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9. Document, 1786 February 24
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1786 February 24
- Summary: D. sends document that completes preceding ones. Asks order of the Treasury to be able to cash his money. States General have received complaints that Rhode Island persists in Navigation Act to the detriment of Dutch citizens. ...
- Number of Images: 1
10. Document, 1786 January 27
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1786 January 27
- Summary: Very pleased with act of Congress concerning himself. Several errors in the document' his name Charles William Frederic, not born in Amsterdam but in Germany, has lived for over 30 years in The Hague. According to act of Congre...
- Number of Images: 4
11. Document, 1786 January 31
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1786 January 31
- Summary: Encloses three documents. 1. an expose written by the "minister of a great city," translated by him, sent to the French court and since to the king of Prussia. 2. considerations by the same minister who sits on the sovereign co...
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12. Document, 1786 March 23
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1786 March 23
- Summary: Stadholder still in Gelderland, guided by bad advisors. Two big issues of the conflict for some time in Holland -- the command of not only the troops as captain general, but for all the cities and provinces as well, in the guis...
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13. Document, 1786 May 06
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1786 May 06
- Summary: Describes the person who created the idea of the German League. In another secret mission to Versailles, he smoothed over difficulties over peace with the Empire and helped conclude alliance between the United Provinces and Fra...
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14. Document, 1786 November 04
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1786 November 04
- Summary: Encloses the annotation of his translation that the ambassador copied to send to his court. Those in Amsterdam wrote a petition in the same spirit as HaarlemÆs. It has been over a year since Congress authorized his payment; arr...
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15. Document, 1786 November 17
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1786 November 17
- Summary: The marked sections in the Gazettes enclosed explain internal affairs in the Netherlands. Mentions Cte de Goits, Mr. V. Bessel, Pensionary of Amsterdam, Kasteelen and others of Haarlem. The conference, as predicted, was insigni...
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16. Document, 1786 November 29
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1786 November 29
- Summary: Information pertaining to the enclosed Gazettes. About a letter translated, which the French ambassador dispatched by express messengers to Mr. Lestevenon. This document should stay with the extracts and Gazettes attached, so t...
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17. Document, 1786 November 29
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1786 November 29
- Summary: M. de Rayneval arrived the 18th. The king desires the re-establishment of tranquility. The king would hold to the declaration made and he did not want to interfere with their domestic affairs, nor let others. They have made him...
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18. Document, 1786 October 03
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1786 October 03
- Summary: Conflict between civil liberty and despotism that had previously been mentioned now in final stages. Terribly afflicted by domestic woes that he forces himself to hide from all because of his love of the United States. Repeats ...
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19. Document, 1786 October 15
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1786 October 15
- Summary: Rediscovery of republican liberty at Utrecht, lost since 1674 and regained by magistrates and bourgeois in big civic ceremony. News of Haarlem, Frisia, Overijssel, Groningen, Zeeland and Holland. Prussian legation remains there...
- Number of Images: 4
20. Document, 1786 October 23
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1786 October 23
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 2
21. Document, 1786 October 31
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1786 October 31
- Summary: Two petitions of the bourgeoisie of Gouda and Alkmaar similar to that of Haarlem. Encloses two letters to give idea of political situation there. Quotes at length from one, about abolishing the rule of 1674. Yesterday four peti...
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22. Document, 1786 September 23
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1786 September 23
- Summary: From the Hague. Letterbook copy.
- Number of Images: 0
23. Document, 1787 December 04
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1787 December 04
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 2
24. Document, 1787 December 21
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1787 December 21
- Summary: Tyranny of the army here. States General complained in Brussels that dutch emigrants are accepted there. Emperor answered that he will give all requested protection to them. 2nd Removing: this time the high city officials. Van ...
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25. Document, 1787 December 21
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1787 December 21
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 1
26. Document, 1787 February 09
- Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Addressee)
- Date: 1787 February 09
- Summary: Last letter sent to Congress, with papers enclosed. Pleased with his majestyÆs sign of favor (to Dumas). Because of annual elections of Congress, was not until last week that majority of delegates assembled and elected a presid...
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27. Document, 1787 February 13
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1787 February 13
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 1
28. Document, 1787 February 16
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1787 February 16
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 1
29. Document, 1787 February 27
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1787 February 27
- Summary: JayÆs letter helped ease his anguish. Arrears now amount to 13791 florins; needs order of the Treasury in order to access the money due him. Jefferson sent an important statement of DumasÆ to Congress. Matter should be treated ...
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30. Document, 1787 January 01
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1787 January 01
- Summary: Negotiations begun by Mr de Rayneval and others failed in Nijmegin, where they refuse all beneficial things. The states of Holland will meet on the 10th. They were informed what had happened. The crisis seems to be in its last ...
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31. Document, 1787 January 26
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1787 January 26
- Summary:
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32. Document, 1787 July 28
- Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Addressee)
- Date: 1787 July 28
- Summary: Transmits act of Congress from July 24th, which states that they will repair the American house in The Hague and allow Dumas to live in it, and the Board of Treasury will give him a regular salary. Also encloses congressional o...
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33. Document, 1787 June 05
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1787 June 05
- Summary: The republic in a convulsion from which she will hopefully emerge freer than ever before. Has more hope than fear for her. In French.
- Number of Images: 1
34. Document, 1787 June 07
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1787 June 07
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 1
35. Document, 1787 June 30
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1787 June 30
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 2
36. Document, 1787 March 02
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1787 March 02
- Summary: Extracts of DumasÆ letters to Jay, taken by his request for the perusal of Mr. Jefferson. March 2: Money still due him. Jefferson sent very important secret letters on pack boat to Jay, coming from Dumas. Sent the Leiden Gazett...
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37. Document, 1787 March 23
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1787 March 23
- Summary: Political situation at The Hague.
- Number of Images: 3
38. Document, 1787 March 30
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1787 March 30
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 1
39. Document, 1787 November 14
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1787 November 14
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 2
40. Document, 1787 November 27
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1787 November 27
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 2
41. Document, 1787 October 17
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1787 October 17
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 3
42. Document, 1787 October 26
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1787 October 26
- Summary: Autograph draft. 'Dumas is not liked in The Hague. Falsely accused of giving money to the Free Corps (bourgeois militia) of The Hague and storing their weapons in his house. Was menaced by people who call the patriots "kees" or...
- Number of Images: 4
43. Document, 1787 September 05
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1787 September 05
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 2
44. Document, 1787 September 28
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1787 September 28
- Summary: Situation dire. Amsterdam still resists, does not know for how long. At The Hague living under rule of a vengeful mob, unchecked by the government. Has had to seek protection of the military because had financially supported a ...
- Number of Images: 2
45. Document, 1788 August 09
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1788 August 09
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 4
46. Document, 1788 August 27
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1788 August 27
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 2
47. Document, 1788 February 02
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1788 February 02
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 2
48. Document, 1788 January 22
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1788 January 22
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 2
49. Document, 1788 July 18
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1788 July 18
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 0
50. Document, 1788 June 10
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1788 June 10
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 1
51. Document, 1788 June 20
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1788 June 20
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 1
52. Document, 1788 March 15
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1788 March 15
- Summary: Ambassador Harris holds audiences. The French ambassador arrives next month. Had the pleasure of seeing Mr. Adams and Mr. Jefferson arrive. The H.P. gave him an official medal and chain worth 520 dollars. Dumas, as charge d'aff...
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53. Document, 1788 March 23
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1788 March 23
- Summary: With pleasure saw Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Adams arrive in Amsterdam. Has learned arrears will be paid. Hope to continue in the good graces of his American friends. In French.
- Number of Images: 1
54. Document, 1788 May 10
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1788 May 10
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 2
55. Document, 1788 May 28
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1788 May 28
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 1
56. Document, 1788 October 21
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1788 October 21
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 7
57. Document, 1788 September 04
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1788 September 04
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 4
58. Document, 1788 September 16
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1788 September 16
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 3
59. Document, 1788 September 26
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1788 September 26
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 5
60. Document, 1789 April 01
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1789 April 01
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 2
61. Document, 1789 April 27
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1789 April 27
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 2
62. Document, 1789 August 14
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1789 August 14
- Summary: Situation in the Hague.
- Number of Images: 2
63. Document, 1789 December 02
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1789 December 02
- Summary: Convulsions in Europe have increased since last letter. Insurrection in Brabant. People against the government in the name of patriotism but really incited by the clergy and by a part of the nobility and encouraged by the power...
- Number of Images: 3
64. Document, 1789 January n.d.
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1789 January n.d.
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 2
65. Document, 1789 July 20
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1789 July 20
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 3
66. Document, 1789 June 15
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1789 June 15
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 3
67. Document, 1789 March 01
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1789 March 01
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 1
68. Document, 1789 March 09
- Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Addressee)
- Date: 1789 March 09
- Summary: DumasÆ letter of August 27th had enclosed request from the ChargT dÆAffaires of the Count Palatine and Bavaria to go to Congress and then the government of Pennsylvania, with regard to a palatine citizen living in Philadelphia....
- Number of Images: 2
69. Document, 1789 March 21
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1789 March 21
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 2
70. Document, 1789 November 08
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1789 November 08
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 4
71. Document, 1789 October 13
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1789 October 13
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 2
72. Document, 1789 September 29
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1789 September 29
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 2
73. Document, 1790 February 01
- Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1790 February 01
- Summary:
- Number of Images: 3