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[Document, 1781 May 7]

61. [Document, 1781 May 7]

  • Name: Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: May 7, 1781
  • Summary: Autograph letter signed. "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 neither seek for nor avoid it....
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[Document, 1781 May 7]

62. [Document, 1781 May 7]

  • Name: Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: May 7, 1781
  • Summary: Autograph Draft signed version of 6967 and 6968. "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 neithe...
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[Document, 1781 November 10]

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[Document, 1781 November 10]

64. [Document, 1781 November 10]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Addressee)
  • Date: November 10, 1781
  • Summary: Encloses papers concerning a young gentleman who will try "to gratify his ill-founded resentment by misrepresentation" to John Jay. John Jay doubts that there will be a peace this winter unless Cornwallis is taken. Has received as yet no answer from S...
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[Document, 1781 September 28]

65. [Document, 1781 September 28]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Addressee)
  • Date: September 28, 1781
  • Summary: Autograph draft. Jay thinks that Floridablanca has the letters which have not reached him. France and Spain have difficulties. Spain has "little money, less wisdom, no credit." "This man" is the most faithless and dangerous one Jay has ever met. Jay t...
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[Document, 1782 August 06]

66. [Document, 1782 August 06]

  • Name: Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: August 06, 1782
  • Summary: Congress will not be silent on the subject of Jay's letter. Sir James has gone to England. "His political race like a new market horse has run round in a circle and brought him back to where he started." It is extraordinary that Franklin's son, Sir Ja...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1782 January 20]

67. [Document, 1782 January 20]

  • Name: Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: January 20, 1782
  • Summary: Draft, in partial code, deciphered, giving war news and hope of capture of Jamaica. Morris hears that Spanish court inclines toward treating with John Jay and advises cooperation in excluding the rest of the world from the Mississippi. Morris urges ob...
  • Number of Images: 3
[Document, 1782 March 04]

68. [Document, 1782 March 04]

[Document, 1782 March 04]

69. [Document, 1782 March 04]

  • Name: Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: March 04, 1782
  • Summary: Mr. [ ] asks for a detailed description of American finance during the Revolution. Mr. Rendon desires to make his court aware of the indebtedness of America to the Mssrs. Morris. Mr. [ ] desires an exact plan of the present state of the bank, an accou...
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[Document, 1782 March 05]

70. [Document, 1782 March 05]

  • Name: Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Author) Rendón, Francisco (Addressee)
  • Date: March 05, 1782
  • Summary: An account of the evolution of finances. The war was provoked by taxation. Congress issued its own bills which circulated freely and showed the general seal. Taxation for any government is difficult because it is not agreeable. As taxes were not levie...
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[Document, 1782 March 10]

77. [Document, 1782 March 10]

  • Name: Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: March 10, 1782
  • Summary: Draft, in partial code, deciphered, of letter enclosing copy of letter from Mr. Rendon, Spanish agent, who is making offer to Morris, as well as copy of Morris answer.
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[Document, 1782 May 21]

78. [Document, 1782 May 21]

  • Name: Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: May 21, 1782
  • Summary: In partial code. Encloses resolution of Congress re Colonel Livingston and Sir James Jay. Announces death of John Jay's father.
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[Document, 1782 October 13]

79. [Document, 1782 October 13]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Addressee)
  • Date: October 13, 1782
  • Summary: George III has authorized Richard Oswald to deal with the Commissioners of the United States. At first his instructions were to deal with the colonies as stated in the enabling act. Jay says that if he had violated the instructions of Congress their d...
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[Document, 1782 October 13]

80. [Document, 1782 October 13]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816 (Addressee)
  • Date: October 13, 1782
  • Summary: Dispute with Oswald concerning his Commission to treat with the American Commissioners. The Americans have won their point, but have done so even over the objections of their French allies who hoped to persuade them to treat with the British under the...
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