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[Document, 1784 October 22]

1. [Document, 1784 October 22]

Name: Price, Richard, 1723-1791 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: October 22, 1784
Summary: Sends John Jay pamphlets. In a few months, the Count de Mirabeau will bring an English translation of Turgot's letter.
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Document, 1785 August 24

2. Document, 1785 August 24

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Price, Richard, 1723-1791 (Addressee)
Date: 1785 August 24
Summary: ALS. Written by Jay as Secretary for Foreign Affairs under the Confederation government to Price, a dissenting minister and pamphleteer in Britain who supported American independence. Apologizes to Price for being tardy in resp...
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[Document, 1785 July 09]

3. [Document, 1785 July 09]

Name: Price, Richard, 1723-1791 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: July 09, 1785
Summary: Recommends M. Curtauld. Is discouraged because his pamphlet on the American Revolution offended some of the leading men in South Carolina who have asserted that Price's ideas for abolishment of the Negro trade and slavery would never be put into effec...
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[Document, 1785 November 25]

4. [Document, 1785 November 25]

Name: Price, Richard, 1723-1791 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: November 25, 1785
Summary: Acknowledges receipt of two letters from John Jay. Gratitude for John Jay's kindness to Mr. Curtauld. Comments on the reception given his pamphlet "addressed to the United States." Folly of British policy toward United States. Warns against the "rage ...
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[Document, 1785 September 27]

5. [Document, 1785 September 27]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Price, Richard, 1723-1791 (Addressee)
Date: September 27, 1785
Summary: Advises Mr. Curtaults not to commence farming immediately because his lack of experience may prove his undoing. Impossibility of finding perfect freedom in the terrestrial state. Impropriety of fighting for freedom, yet keeping other human beings in s...
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