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Document, 1785 May 08

81. Document, 1785 May 08

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 May 08
  • Summary: Ministry of Gr Britain will no doubt find Adams' letters of credence and commission sufficient authority, but as shown by a letter from the Duke of Dorset, Br cabinet doubt whether Congress have power to treat of commercial tre...
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[Document, 1785 May 11]

82. [Document, 1785 May 11]

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: May 11, 1785
  • Summary: Sends letters on formation of a treaty with the Barbary pirates. Are finishing up the treaty with Prussia.
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Document, 1785 May 13

83. Document, 1785 May 13

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 May 13
  • Summary: Conversation with the Duke of Dorset: what is the reason the posts have not been evacuated? "He seemed wholly at a loss upon this subject, and did not incline to compromise himself by hazarding any opinion." What about debts an...
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Document, 1785 May 30

84. Document, 1785 May 30

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 May 30
  • Summary: Acknowledges the receipt of Jay's letter of the 31st March, with a resolution of Congress of the 21st March. Will obey the spirit of the resolution. The course of his Danish Majesty has produced a more liberal decision in Engla...
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Document, 1785 November 04

85. Document, 1785 November 04

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 November 04
  • Summary: Yesterday read an arret of the King of France, published in a Leyden gazette: a bounty promised to importers of fish from French fisheries, into French West Indies, to Spain, Portugal or Italy. French fish an important commodit...
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Document, 1785 November 05

86. Document, 1785 November 05

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 November 05
  • Summary: Negotiations with Portuguese Minister concerning a commercial treaty; discussion of grain vs. flour; lumber. Portuguese exports from Brazil not greatly needed by America (tobacco, rice, indigo, etc) but could supply wines, suga...
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Document, 1785 November 11

87. Document, 1785 November 11

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 November 11
  • Summary: Advises merchants of the United States to push their commerce to the East Indies "as far as it will go." The direct trade to be promoted by imposing heavy duties upon Indian goods via Europe. The intercourse worthy of attention...
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Document, 1785 November 24

88. Document, 1785 November 24

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 November 24
  • Summary: Shelburne's position, probability of his "coming in" unlikely. State of England "I think this nation will have dangerous convulsions" Division of America into States a subject of inquiry by Ministers and comments on division of...
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Document, 1785 November 24

89. Document, 1785 November 24

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 November 24
  • Summary: France and Holland have signed a treaty of defensive alliance; British attempts to prevent it were in vain, now well known and published; British prestige suffers from the treaty and from loss of Empire on the Seas. Pitt "is bu...
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[Document, 1785 October 11]

90. [Document, 1785 October 11]

Document, 1785 October 15

91. Document, 1785 October 15

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 October 15
  • Summary: It appears the English do not wish "to be well with us." Can receive nothing but "certain hints" to his demands and insistences. No other minister can obtain answers to his memorials either. "The Ministry have been in a letharg...
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Document, 1785 October 17

92. Document, 1785 October 17

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 October 17
  • Summary: Neutral policy of the United States. Jealousy of France and England. Question of Alliance with America now before the English ministry: whether to yield to the demands of the United States or force them into other and closer co...
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Document, 1785 October 21

93. Document, 1785 October 21

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 October 21
  • Summary: Appointment with Carmarthen yesterday; handed his Ladyship some Memorials, conversation on the treaty subjects, no answer to most questions, comment only with regard to the posts and debts, "To be sure, nothing could be done un...
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Document, 1785 October 25

94. Document, 1785 October 25

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 October 25
  • Summary: Parliamentary debate on the navigation acts. United States may learn from the debate "the cunning of both Administration and opposition"-no man had the courage to declare himself for free and unlimited trade with the United Sta...
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Document, 1785 October 27

95. Document, 1785 October 27

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 October 27
  • Summary: Yesterday Carmarthen said he would deliver papers relative to the correspondence between Governor Bowdoin and Captain Stanhope to Lord Howe's department. Carmarthen thought some of the letters extremely improper. Adams anticipa...
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Document, 1785 September 02

96. Document, 1785 September 02

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 September 02
  • Summary: Discusses the advisability of suggesting appointments of English Ministers to America; on Consuls and Vice Consuls "to explore new channels of commerce and new markets for our produce." Suggests Barclay be sent to London.
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Document, 1785 September 03

97. Document, 1785 September 03

Document, 1785 September 06

98. Document, 1785 September 06

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 September 06
  • Summary: Etiquette of letters of credence and recall. Concerning the posts: "the ministers are wrapped up in silence" and concerning the state of the Nation: "the people are discontented and the populace tumultuous" "I am not, however, ...
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Document, 1785 September 15

99. Document, 1785 September 15

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 September 15
  • Summary: Transmitting the ratification of the treaty and convention between the United States and the States General of the United Netherlands. Wishes receipt of it may be noted in the Journals of Congress. The seals are "in elegant sil...
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[Document, 1786 April 25]

100. [Document, 1786 April 25]

  • Name: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Author)
  • Date: April 25, 1786
  • Summary: The British Secretary of State informed them that the project of the commercial treaty contained political articles which must be deleted; as he would not further elaborate, they drew up a new project with fewer articles. In this new draft they have e...
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