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[Document, 1779 April 01]

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[Document, 1779 April 01]

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[Document, 1779 April 01]

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[Document, 1779 December 04]

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[Document, 1779 February 09]

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Document, 1779 September 29

46. Document, 1779 September 29

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R. (Addressee) Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1779 September 29
  • Summary: Colonel Laurens is going to be secretary to Franklin. Adams is appointed to manage the business of pacification with Britain, Dana is his secretary. John Jay goes to Spain with Carmichael as his secretary. Wishes Morris could u...
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Document, 1780 January 03

47. Document, 1780 January 03

  • Name: Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1780 January 03
  • Summary: In cipher with Jay's deciphering. News: army hutted in the vicinity of Morris Town; the Don on the part of the governor of Havanna has proposed to assist in the reduction of Florida; Continental money on the mending hand, gold ...
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[Document, 1780 January 03]

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  • Name: Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: January 03, 1780
  • Summary: Delivers good news to John Jay concerning the assurance received that the Governor of Havana would help in the reduction of Florida. If this happens, Morris believes that the British might lose all their island possessions. If John Jay could send as a...
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[Document, 1780 March 02]

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[Document, 1780 March 02]

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Document, 1780 March 20

51. Document, 1780 March 20

  • Name: Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1780 March 20
  • Summary: Morris comments on Congress's "new System of Finance the Plain English of which is a Breach of their Resolution to stop the Press." Doesn't think plan will work. Financial aid must be obtained from Europe. Concludes: "I early f...
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Document, 1780 May 27

52. Document, 1780 May 27

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1780 May 27
  • Summary: Did Morris' fatigue at writing in cypher keep him from giving news of friends? As new cypher may not have arrived, he transmits a message in the old cypher (not decipherable). Jay extols the goddess of Experience-he would write...
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[Document, 1780 November 05]

53. [Document, 1780 November 05]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Addressee)
  • Date: November 05, 1780
  • Summary: Morris should stay in politics. Drawing bills on John Jay was unpolitic. Many delays are unavoidable or designed. The British are courting them. What is A. Lee doing? Deane is displeased with the duplicity of certain persons. He is trying to make a ba...
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[Document, 1781 January 2]

54. [Document, 1781 January 2]

  • Name: Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: January 2, 1781
  • Summary: Autograph draft, containing in addition to changes by Gouverneur Morris, various excisions and emendations done by later editor Jared Sparks. Discusses size and condition of the Continental Army and southern participation in war. On question of Spanis...
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[Document, 1781 July 07]

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Document, 1781 June 17

56. Document, 1781 June 17

  • Name: Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1781 June 17
  • Summary: ALS. Writes to Jay, then Minister to Spain, about Jay's appointment as one of five commissioners to negotiate peace during the American Revolution (which eventually resulted in the Treaty of Paris). Gives advice on how to deal ...
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[Document, 1781 June 17]

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  • Name: Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: June 17, 1781
  • Summary: Does not know whether to congratulate or to console Jay on his new appointment. Jay's instructions direct him to obey the dictates of the French Minister. In such a servile situation "to have relaxed on all sides, to have given up all things might eas...
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Document, 1781 March 31

58. Document, 1781 March 31

  • Name: Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1781 March 31
  • Summary: Autograph Letter signed. Will enclose a copy of a letter from Greene to Congress. Cornwallis has from 3,000 to 3,500 well-trained soldiers and Greene from 1,500 to 2,000 men -- some of them raw recruits and almost in a "state o...
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[Document, 1781 March 31]

59. [Document, 1781 March 31]

  • Name: Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: March 31, 1781
  • Summary: Autograph Draft signed version of document 6966. Cornwallis has from 3,000 to 3,500 well-trained soldiers and Greene from 1,500 to 2,000 men -- some of them raw recruits and almost in a "state of nature." States American advantages. "Cornwallis will b...
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[Document, 1781 May 7]

60. [Document, 1781 May 7]

  • Name: Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: May 7, 1781
  • Summary: Duplicate Autograph Letter Signed version of 6967. "Lee is where he ought to be. Connections have done and will do nothing for him. Deane may complain of duplicity and perhaps justly. John Jay has advised Morris to enter public life, and "I will neith...
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