Volumes | Volume 3, 1884–1885 | Documents | Woodrow Wilson to Ellen Louise Axson, with Enclosure
The Status of the Peacemaking on John Jay’s Arrival in Paris [Editorial Note]John Jay’s Diary of the Peacemaking, 23–28 June 1782Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston) to John Jay, 23 June 1782John Jay to Aranda, 25 June 1782John Jay to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston), 25 June 1782John Jay to Montmorin, 26 June [–19 July] 1782Aranda to John Jay, 27 June 1782John Jay to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston), 28 June 1782William Carmichael to John Jay, 3 July 1782Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston) to John Jay, 6 July 1782John Adams to John Jay, 8 July 1782John Jay’s Diary of the Peacemaking, 25–26 July 1782John Jay to John Adams, 2 August 1782John Jay to William Carmichael, 3 August 1782John Jay Opens Negotiations with Aranda [Editorial Note]Aranda’s Notes on Negotiations with John Jay, 3 August 1782Gouverneur Morris to John Jay, 6 August 1782Richard Oswald’s Notes on Conversations with Benjamin Franklin and John Jay, 7[–9] August 1782Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston) to John Jay, 8 August 1782John Adams to John Jay, 10 August 1782Richard Oswald’s Notes on Conversations with Benjamin Franklin and John Jay, 11 and 13 August 1782John Jay to Robert R. Livingston, 13 August 1782John Adams to John Jay, 13 August 1782William Bingham to John Jay, 14[–15] August 1782John Jay’s Draft of a Patent, 15 August 1782Richard Oswald’s Notes on Conversations with Benjamin Franklin and John Jay, 15 and 17 August 1782Benjamin Franklin to John Jay, 16 August 1782Aranda’s Notes on Negotiations with John Jay, 19–30 August 1782Montmorin to John Jay, 22 August 1782Benjamin Vaughan to Shelburne, 24 August 1782John Jay to Egbert Benson, 26 August 1782John Jay to John Adams, 1 September 1782John Jay to Robert R. Livingston, 4 September 1782The Rayneval and Vaughan Missions to England [Editorial Note]Rayneval to John Jay, 4 September 1782Rayneval to John Jay, 6 September 1782Rayneval’s Memoir on the Boundaries between Spain and the United States, 6 September 1782John Jay Proposes Altering Richard Oswald’s Commission [Editorial Note]John Jay’s Draft of a Proposed Alteration in Oswald’s Commission, 9 September 1782John Jay to Richard Oswald, 10 September 1782John Jay to Aranda, 10 September 1782Richard Oswald to Thomas Townshend, 10 September 1782John Jay to Vergennes, [c. 11 September 1782]Aranda to John Jay, 11 September 1782Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston) to John Jay, 12 September 1782John Jay to Peter Van Schaack, 17 September 1782Robert R. Livingston to John Jay, 17 September 1782John Jay to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston), 18 September 1782John Jay to Bourgoing, 26 September 1782William Bingham to John Jay, 27 September 1782John Jay to John Adams, 28 September 1782John Jay to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston), 28 September 1782Appointment of William Temple Franklin, 1 October 1782The Separate Article [Editorial Note]Richard Oswald to Thomas Townshend, 2 October 1782John Jay to Frederick Jay, 3 October 1782Richard Oswald to Thomas Townshend, 5 October 1782The Preliminary Articles: First Draft [Editorial Note]Preliminary Articles: First Draft, [5–8] October 1782Richard Oswald to Thomas Townshend, 7 October 1782Richard Oswald to Thomas Townshend, 8 October 1782John Jay’s Diary of the Peacemaking, 12–29 October 1782John Jay to Gouverneur Morris, 13 October 1782John Jay to Robert Morris, 13 October 1782John Jay to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston), 13 October 1782Thomas Townshend to Richard Oswald, 26 October 1782The Preliminary Articles: Second Draft [Editorial Note]Preliminary Articles: Second Draft, [4–7 November 1782]Henry Strachey to the American Peace Commissioners, 5 November 1782Richard Oswald to Thomas Townshend, 6[–7] November 1782American Peace Commissioners to Richard Oswald, 7 November 1782Richard Oswald to Henry Strachey, 8 November 1782Paris Embraces the Jays [Editorial Note]Sarah Livingston Jay to Mary White Morris, 14 November 1782Richard Oswald to Thomas Townshend, 15 November 1782John Jay to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston), 17 November 1782Benjamin Vaughan to John Jay, 18 November 1782Lafayette to the American Peace Commissioners, 21 November 1782Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston) to John Jay, 23 November 1782Henry Strachey’s Remarks to the American Peace Commissioners, 25 November 1782American Peace Commissioners to Lafayette, 27 November 1782John Jay to Adrienne de Noailles, Marquise de Lafayette, 28 November 1782The Preliminary Articles Are Signed [Editorial Note]Preliminary Articles of Peace, 30 November 1782John Jay to Lady Juliana Penn, 4 December 1782Sir James Jay: Revisited [Editorial Note]John Jay to Frederick Jay, 7 December 1782John Jay to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston), 7 December 1782American Peace Commissioners to Francis Dana, 12 December 1782John Jay to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston), 12 December 1782Vergennes’s Response to News of the Preliminaries [Editorial Note]American Peace Commissioners to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston), 14 December 1782John Jay to Robert R. Livingston, 14 December 1782Sarah Livingston Jay to Catharine W. Livingston, 14 December 1782John Jay’s Diary of the Peacemaking, Entry for 22 December 1782 [Editorial Note]John Jay’s Diary of the Peacemaking, 22 December 1782Lafayette to John Jay, 26 December 1782Lewis Littlepage to John Jay, 29 December 1782Gouverneur Morris to John Jay, 1 January 1783Robert Morris to John Jay, 3 January 1783Tensions between Allies over the Peace Negotiations [Editorial Note]Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston) to John Jay, 4 January 1783John Jay to Sarah Livingston Jay, 18 January 1783John Jay to Lafayette, 19 January 1783Sarah Livingston Jay to John Jay, 21 January 1783Passports and the Cessation of Hostilities [Editorial Note]John Jay to John Adams, 1 February 1783John Jay to John Vaughan, 15 February 1783Lafayette, John Jay’s Self-Appointed “Political Aide-de-Camp” Takes on the Spanish [Editorial Note]Lafayette to John Jay, 15 February 1783American Peace Commissioners to Alleyne Fitzherbert, [c. 20] February 1783Declaration of Cessation of Arms, 20 February 1783John Jay to Silas Deane, 22 February 1783Philip Van Brugh Livingston to John Jay, 22 February 1783Montmorin to John Jay, 22 February 1783John Jay to John Adams, March 1783Patience Lovell Wright to John Adams and John Jay, 8 March 1783John Jay to Robert Morris, 10 March 1783Congress Debates the Commissioners’ Conduct [Editorial Note]Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston) to the American Peace Commissioners, 25 March 1783John Jay to Benjamin Vaughan, 28 March 1783John Jay to Henrietta Maria Colden, 2 April 1783John Jay to Montmorin, 3 April 1783John Jay to Frederick Jay, 6 April 1783John Jay to George Washington, 6 April 1783John Jay to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston), 7 April 1783John Jay to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston), 11 April 1783John Marsden Pintard to John Jay, 19 April 1783Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston) to the American Peace Commissioners, 21 April 1783John Jay to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston), 22 April 1783Egbert Benson to John Jay, 25 April 1783Robert R. Livingston to John Jay, 1 May 1783Robert Morris to John Jay, 12 May 1783John Jay to William Livingston, 21 May 1783William Livingston to John Jay, 21 May 1783John Jay to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston), 30 May 1783Gouverneur Morris to John Jay, 30 May 1783Robert Morris to John Jay, 31 May 1783John Jay to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston), 1 June 1783Negotiating a Trade Agreement [Editorial Note]John Jay: Proposals for Inclusion in a Trade Agreement, [c. 1 June 1783]John Jay to John Marsden Pintard, 7 June 1783John Jay to Elias Boudinot, 11 June 1783John Jay to George Clinton, 12[–13] June 1783David Hartley to the American Peace Commissioners, 14 June 1783John Jay to Peter Van Schaack, 16 June 1783David Hartley’s Propositions for the Definitive Treaty, 19 June 1783John Jay to Philip Van Brugh Livingston, 28 June 1783Benjamin Franklin and John Jay to Vergennes, 28 June 1783American Peace Commissioners’ Answers to David Hartley’s Propositions for the Definitive Treaty, 29 June 1783John Jay to Catharine W. Livingston, 1 July 1783American Peace Commissioners’ Propositions for the Definitive Treaty, [c. 1 July 1783]Philip Schuyler to John Jay, 1 July 1783Sarah Livingston Jay to Catharine W. Livingston, 16 July 1783American Peace Commissioners to David Hartley, 17 July 1783John Jay to Gouverneur Morris, 17 July 1783The Commissioners Defend the Treaty [Editorial Note]John Jay’s Draft of the American Peace Commissioners to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston), [before 18 July 1783]Benjamin Franklin’s Observations on John Jay’s Draft, [c. 18 July 1783]American Peace Commissioners to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston), 18 July 1783John Jay to Robert R. Livingston, 19 July 1783John Jay to William Livingston, 19 July 1783John Jay to Charles Thomson, 19 July 1783John Jay and Benjamin Franklin Reminisce [Editorial Note]John Jay’s Notes on Conversations with Benjamin Franklin, 19 July 1783–17 April 1784John Jay to Catharine W. Livingston, 20 July 1783John Jay to Robert Morris, 20 July 1783John Jay to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston), 20 July 1783Lafayette to the American Peace Commissioners, 22 July 1783Alexander Hamilton to John Jay, 25 July 1783Robert Morris to John Jay, 26 July 1783American Peace Commissioners to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Robert R. Livingston), 27 July 1783John Jay to William Bingham, 29 July 1783Edward Bancroft to John Jay, c. 12 August 1783John Jay to William Carmichael, 14 August 1783Joshua Johnson to John Jay, 22 August 1783William Carmichael to John Jay, 23 August 1783American Peace Commissioners to Henry Laurens, c. 24 August 1783John Jay to Joshua Johnson, 5 September 1783Henry Laurens to John Jay, 5 September 1783Signing the Definitive Treaty [Editorial Note]American Peace Commissioners to the President of Congress (Elias Boudinot), 10 September 1783Benjamin Franklin to John Jay, 10 September 1783John Jay to Benjamin Franklin, 11 September 1783John Jay to Egbert Benson, 12 September 1783John Jay to Robert Morris, 12 September 1783John Jay to Robert R. Livingston, 12 September 1783John Jay to the Secretary of Congress (Charles Thomson), 12 September 1783John Jay to Gouverneur Morris, 24 September 1783Gouverneur Morris to John Jay, 25 September 1783John Jay to Alexander Hamilton, 28 September 1783An American in England [Editorial Note]Peter Jay Munro to John Jay, 16 October 1783John Jay to Sarah Livingston Jay, 26 October 1783John Jay to Peter Jay Munro, 26 October 1783John Jay to Sarah Livingston Jay, 28 October 1783Congress’s Instructions to the American Peace Commissioners, 29 October 1783Elias Boudinot to John Jay, 1 November 1783Benjamin Vaughan to John Jay, 3 November 1783Robert Morris to John Jay, 4 November 1783Sarah Livingston Jay to John Jay, 6 November 1783Catharine W. Livingston to John Jay, 9 November 1783John Jay to William Temple Franklin, 11 November 1783John Jay to Charles Thomson, 14 November 1783John Jay to Sarah Livingston Jay, 14 November 1783Sarah Livingston Jay to John Jay, 18 November 1783Peter Jay Munro to John Jay, 20 November 1783John Jay to Sarah Livingston Jay, 23 November 1783William Livingston to John Jay, 24 November 1783Sarah Livingston Jay to John Jay, 27 November 1783Robert Morris to John Jay, 27 November 1783Robert R. Livingston to John Jay, 29 November 1783John Adams to John Jay, 7 December 1783Sarah Livingston Jay to John Jay, 7 December 1783Peter Jay Munro to John Jay, 7 December 1783Sarah Livingston Jay to William Temple Franklin, 7 December 1783Patience Lovell Wright to John Jay, 8 December 1783John Jay to John Adams, 9 December 1783Sarah Livingston Jay to John Jay, 11 December 1783John Jay to Egbert Benson, 15–18 December 1783John Jay to Benjamin Franklin, 26 December 1783John Jay to Sarah Livingston Jay, 26 December 1783Catharine W. Livingston to John Jay, 30 December 1783Peter Jay Munro to John Jay, 4 January 1784Gouverneur Morris to John Jay, 10 January 1784Last Days in France [Editorial Note]President of Congress (Thomas Mifflin) to the American Peace Commissioners, 14 January 1784Charles Thomson to John Jay, 14 January 1784Charles Thomson to John Jay, 15 January 1784Robert R. Livingston to John Jay, 25 January 1784Settling the Spanish Accounts [Editorial Note]John Jay to William Carmichael, 28 January 1784John Jay to Gouverneur Morris, 10 February 1784John Adams to John Jay, 13 February 1784John Jay to Elbridge Gerry, 19 February 1784John Jay to David Hartley, 22 February 1784, enclosing John Jay to Messrs. Smith, Wright, and Gray, 22 February 1784John Jay to Gilbert Stuart, 22 February 1784, enclosing John Jay to Messrs. Smith, Wright, and Gray, 22 February 1784John Jay to Silas Deane, 23 February 1784John Jay to Robert Morris, 25 February 1784David Hartley to John Jay, 2 March 1784John Jay to Richard Oswald, 5 March 1784William Bingham to John Jay, 10 March 1784Conditional Manumission of Benoît, 21 March 1784John Jay’s Notes Concerning William Carmichael, [27 March–19 April 1784]Benjamin Franklin to John Jay, 30 March 1784Benjamin Franklin and John Jay to David Hartley, 31 March 1784John Jay to Henry Laurens, 5 April 1784John Jay to John Witherspoon, 6 April 1784John Jay to Charles Thomson, 7 April 1784Henry Laurens to John Jay, 11 April 1784John Adams to John Jay, 20 April 1784John Jay to John Adams, 27 April 1784John Jay to Frederick Jay, 27 April 1784John Jay to Lafayette, 8 May 1784John Jay to Vergennes, 8 May 1784John Adams to John Jay, 11 May 1784Charles Thomson to John Jay, 18 June 1784Homecoming [Editorial Note]John Jay to the President of Congress (Thomas Mifflin), 25 July 1784Charles Thomson to John Jay, 29 July 1784Robert R. Livingston to John Jay, 30 July 1784François de Barbé-Marbois to John Jay, 2 August 1784Benjamin Vaughan to John Jay, 5 August 1784Charles Thomson to John Jay, 9 August 1784John Jay to Charles Thomson, 12 August 1784John Jay to Benjamin Lincoln, 17 August 1784John Jay to Robert R. Livingston, 18 August 1784Robert R. Livingston to John Jay, 26 August 1784James Duane to John Jay, 27 August 1784John Jay to Benjamin Vaughan, 2 September 1784John Jay to Matthew Ridley, 3 September 1784John Jay to Peter Van Schaack, 3 September 1784John Jay to Edward Livingston, 5 September 1784John Jay to Robert R. Livingston, 5 September 1784John Jay to Henry Oothoudt, Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, and Christopher Yates, Commissioners of Forfeitures for the Western District, 5 September 1784Robert R. Livingston to John Jay, 10 September 1784Benjamin Franklin to John Jay, 15 September 1784Charles Thomson to John Jay, 18 September 1784“Extempore! On hearing that the Honorable John Jay, Esq. had landed at New-York”, 2 October 1784Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of New York to John Jay, 2 October 1784John Jay to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of New York, [4 October 1784]Lafayette to John Jay, 7 October 1784William Bingham to John Jay, 16 October 1784John Jay to George Clinton, 18 October 1784John Jay to Charles Thomson, 20 October 1784Richard Price to John Jay, 22 October 1784Matthew Ridley to John Jay, 2 November 1784Commission of New York Delegates to Congress, 4 November 1784George Clinton to John Jay, 8 November 1784Henry Van Schaack to John Jay, 11 November 1784John Jay to Peter Van Schaack, 21 November 1784Lafayette to John Jay, 25 November 1784Lafayette to John Jay, 26 November 1784John Jay to Benjamin Vaughan, 30 November 1784John Jay’s Role in the New York–Massachusetts Western Lands Dispute [Editorial Note]Journal of the Proceedings of the New York Agents for Negotiating the New York–Massachusetts Lands Dispute, 4–9 December 1784Lafayette to John Jay, 5 December 1784Sarah Livingston Jay to John Jay, 5[–7] December 1784Alexander Hamilton to John Jay, 7 December 1784James Duane: Journal of Proceedings of the New York Agents for the Settlement of the New York–Massachusetts Lands Dispute, [10–11 December 1784]John Jay’s Draft Letter to the King of France, 10 December 1784Sarah Livingston Jay to John Jay, 10 December 1784John Jay’s Draft of a Resolution Concerning Lafayette, [c. 10 December 1784]Richard Henry Lee to John Jay, [c. 12 December 1784]John Jay to John Adams, 13 December 1784John Jay to Benjamin Franklin, 13 December 1784John Jay to Peter Augustus Jay, 13 December 1784John Jay’s Draft Resolution on a Consular Convention with France, 14 December 1784John Adams to John Jay, 15 December 1784Certification of John Jay’s Oath as Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 21 December 1784John Jay to François de Barbé-Marbois, 22 December 1784Agreement between the Agents of New York and Massachusetts, 24–28 December 1784 