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[Document, 1782 September 12]

121. [Document, 1782 September 12]

  • Name: Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: September 12, 1782
  • Summary: Livingston very irritated at lack of information from the American ministers abroad. Thinks recognition of our independence was a premature hope. Try to get direct trade with the West Indies. We cannot purchase foreign manufactures without a place to ...
  • Number of Images: 7
[Document, 1782 September 12]

122. [Document, 1782 September 12]

  • Name: Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: September 12, 1782
  • Summary: Livingston very irritated at lack of information from the American ministers abroad. Thinks recognition of our independence was a premature hope. Try to get direct trade with the West Indies. We cannot purchase foreign manufactures without a place to ...
  • Number of Images: 4
[Document, 1782 September 12]

123. [Document, 1782 September 12]

  • Name: Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: September 12, 1782
  • Summary: Livingston very irritated at lack of information from the American ministers abroad. Thinks recognition of our independence was a premature hope. Try to get direct trade with the West Indies. We cannot purchase foreign manufactures without a place to ...
  • Number of Images: 7
[Document, 1782 September 17]

124. [Document, 1782 September 17]

  • Name: Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: September 17, 1782
  • Summary: Thanks Jay for his letter and is glad to know that they are all right. Jay's brother James is in England. Only imprudent. Duane has taken his seat in New York delegation. Benson and Hamilton have returned to the practice of the law.
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1782 September 18]

125. [Document, 1782 September 18]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: September 18, 1782
  • Summary: Sends Livingston a copy of Marbois' letter to Vergennes, 13 March 1782, and wants him to keep it a secret for the present. France wishes to postpone an acknowledgment of our independence by Britain until Spain's desires are satisfied. They want us to ...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1782 September 18]

126. [Document, 1782 September 18]

[Document, 1782 September 18]

127. [Document, 1782 September 18]

  • Name: Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: September 18, 1782
  • Summary: Sends Jay the latest Congressional resolutions on his powers to negotiate. Jay thinks the negotiation will go slowly. Sends a new cipher to Jay and Franklin because every few of their letters reach him unciphered.
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1782 September 18]

128. [Document, 1782 September 18]

[Document, 1782 September 28]

129. [Document, 1782 September 28]

[Document, 1782 September 28]

130. [Document, 1782 September 28]

[Document, 1783 April 02]

131. [Document, 1783 April 02]

[Document, 1783 April 07]

132. [Document, 1783 April 07]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: April 07, 1783
  • Summary: Spain now ready to receive Jay as representative of independent nation. Lafayette did all he could to aid us in his journey through Spain On 29 March Spain told Jay they wanted him to return to Madrid to complete the treaty. The treaties must be concl...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1783 April 07]

133. [Document, 1783 April 07]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: April 07, 1783
  • Summary: Spain now ready to receive Jay as representative of independent nation. Lafayette did all he could to aid us in his journey through Spain On 29 March Spain told Jay they wanted him to return to Madrid to complete the treaty. The treaties must be concl...
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1783 April 08]

134. [Document, 1783 April 08]

[Document, 1783 April 11]

135. [Document, 1783 April 11]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: April 11, 1783
  • Summary: Fox-North coalition in power in England. Hartley approved to negotiate with us on commercial treaty. Russia and Emperor have been invited to assist at the definitive treaties. Passage from Paris to Madrid is rarely safe and letters to Spain should be ...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1783 April 11]

136. [Document, 1783 April 11]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: April 11, 1783
  • Summary: Fox-North coalition in power in England. Hartley approved to negotiate with us on commercial treaty. Russia and Emperor have been invited to assist at the definitive treaties. Passage from Paris to Madrid is rarely safe and letters to Spain should be ...
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1783 April 22]

137. [Document, 1783 April 22]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: April 22, 1783
  • Summary: It is said Hartley will propose that the people of the two countries shall have all the rights of citizens in each. Jay favorable to this temporarily. They are courting us and we should not be either too forward or too coy. No trust in any court but t...
  • Number of Images: 3
[Document, 1783 April 22]

138. [Document, 1783 April 22]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: April 22, 1783
  • Summary: It is said Hartley will propose that the people of the two countries shall have all the rights of citizens in each. Jay favorable to this temporarily. They are courting us and we should not be either too forward or too coy. No trust in any court but t...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1783 July 18]

139. [Document, 1783 July 18]

[Document, 1783 July 18]

140. [Document, 1783 July 18]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: July 18, 1783
  • Summary: Any dissatisfaction with the negotiation is the result of lack of knowledge of the situation here. Britain wanted originally to claim the area east of the Mississippi up to the Ohio as a refuge for the tories. Finally settled on Yazoo river as dividin...
  • Number of Images: 4