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[Document, 1786 May 10]

61. [Document, 1786 May 10]

[Document, 1786 October 03]

62. [Document, 1786 October 03]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: October 03, 1786
  • Summary: Encloses papers relating to the Franco-American consular convention. It is an extremely delicate situation, Congress feeling bound by the Scheme proposed by a prior Congress; therefore press for only those revisions which do appear to arise from a dep...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1786 October 12]

63. [Document, 1786 October 12]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: October 12, 1786
  • Summary: Has dispatches ready, which will be forwarded in about ten days. Encloses act of Congress recalling Mr. Lamb.
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1786 October 12]

64. [Document, 1786 October 12]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: October 12, 1786
  • Summary: Has dispatches ready, which will be forwarded in about ten days. Encloses act of Congress recalling Mr. Lamb.
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1786 October 27]

65. [Document, 1786 October 27]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: October 27, 1786
  • Summary: Explains that his dispatches on consular convention were delayed by discovery that the copy inscribed in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs diary was incorrect. Asks that information be transmitted concerning the treaty with Morocco and Portugal. Affairs...
  • Number of Images: 3
[Document, 1786 October 27]

66. [Document, 1786 October 27]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: October 27, 1786
  • Summary: Explains that his dispatches on consular convention were delayed by discovery that the copy inscribed in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs diary was incorrect. Asks that information be transmitted concerning the treaty with Morocco and Portugal. Affairs...
  • Number of Images: 3
[Document, 1787 April 24]

67. [Document, 1787 April 24]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: April 24, 1787
  • Summary: Laments lack of privacy in mails. Death of Vergennes. Convention to meet next month at Philadelphia. Washington has accepted appointment to it. Not optimistic about success of Convention. Only calamity will bring people to senses. Comments on Shays' i...
  • Number of Images: 4
[Document, 1787 April 24]

68. [Document, 1787 April 24]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: April 24, 1787
  • Summary: Laments lack of privacy in mails. Death of Vergennes. Convention to meet next month at Philadelphia. Washington has accepted appointment to it. Not optimistic about success of Convention. Only calamity will bring people to senses. Comments on Massachu...
  • Number of Images: 3
[Document, 1787 February 09]

69. [Document, 1787 February 09]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: February 09, 1787
  • Summary: Annual election delayed business considerably; last week a quorum was assembled in Congress and St. Clair elected President. It will be some time before Congress disposes of the backlog of business which accumulated in its absence. The debate over the...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1787 February 09]

70. [Document, 1787 February 09]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: February 09, 1787
  • Summary: Annual election delayed business considerably; last week a quorum was assembled in Congress and St. Clair elected President. It will be some time before Congress disposes of the backlog of business which accumulated in its absence. The debate over the...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1787 February 14]

71. [Document, 1787 February 14]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: February 14, 1787
  • Summary: A visit will be paid him by a John Joshua Bauer, a Lieutenant in the Austrian Navy, who is married to a lady from New York. Her friends ask him to commend them to Jefferson's attention.
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1787 July 24]

72. [Document, 1787 July 24]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: July 24, 1787
  • Summary: Acknowledges Jefferson's letters of 14 and 23 February. Transmits letter for Moroccan Emperor and copy of treaty, letter to Don Francisco Chiappe, letter for Fennish, copy of Act of Congress of 18th July, Northwest Ordinance, Journals of Congress and ...
  • Number of Images: 3
[Document, 1787 July 24]

73. [Document, 1787 July 24]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: July 24, 1787
  • Summary: Acknowledges Jefferson's letters of 14 and 23 February. Transmits letter for Moroccan Emperor and copy of treaty, letter to Don Francisco Chiappe, letter for Fennish, copy of Act of Congress of 18th July, Northwest Ordinance, Journals of Congress and ...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1787 July 27]

74. [Document, 1787 July 27]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: July 27, 1787
  • Summary: Congress wants him to conclude consular convention with French. Will enclose formal authorization. Commiserates with him on poor health.
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1787 July 27]

75. [Document, 1787 July 27]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: July 27, 1787
  • Summary: Letter supplements one written earlier on same date. Further advice on terms of proposed consular convention. Mentions Jefferson's suggestions in letter of 9 January.
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1787 November 03]

76. [Document, 1787 November 03]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: November 03, 1787
  • Summary: Encloses instructions from Congress concerning the negotiations between U.S. and Denmark. Georgia frontier has been ravaged by Indians, and the want of proper government gives encouragement to such embarrassments.
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1787 November 03]

77. [Document, 1787 November 03]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: November 03, 1787
  • Summary: Encloses instructions from Congress concerning the negotiations between U.S. and Denmark. Georgia frontier has been ravaged by Indians, and the want of proper government gives encouragement to such embarrassments.
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1787 October 24]

78. [Document, 1787 October 24]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: October 24, 1787
  • Summary: Transmits various acts of Congress. Informs him of action taken concerning claims against South Carolina. Also sent to Jefferson is a copy of the proposed Constitution, about which Jay comments that there is general approval, but that strong oppositio...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1787 October 24]

79. [Document, 1787 October 24]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: October 24, 1787
  • Summary: Routing of dispatches changed, as opinion prevails that war has broken out between France and England, and the courier decided to take passage in an American vessel. Jay thinks the apprehensions are premature. Encloses a new commission for Jefferson t...
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1787 October 24]

80. [Document, 1787 October 24]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: October 24, 1787
  • Summary: Transmits various acts of Congress. Informs him of action taken concerning claims against South Carolina. Also sent to Jefferson is a copy of the proposed Constitution, about which Jay comments that there is general approval, but that strong oppositio...
  • Number of Images: 3