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56 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
the continuance of that consideration will depend on
the dignity and wisdom of her conduct.
I mean to return next spring. My health is somewhat better.
I am, dear sir,
Your affectionate and humble servant,
John Jay.
jay to robert r. livingston.
[Private.]
Dear Robert : PASSY> x9th July> 1783.
Our despatches by Barney must be ready the day
after to-morrow. The many letters I have written
and have still to write by him, together with conferences, company, etc., keep me fully employed. You
will therefore excuse my not descending so much to
particulars as both of us indeed might wish. As little
that passes in Congress is kept entirely secret, we
think it prudent at least to postpone giving you a
more minute detail than you have already received,
of the reasons which induced us to sign the provisional articles without previously communicating
them to the French Minister. For your private
satisfaction, however, I will make a few remarks on
that subject.
Your doubts respecting the propriety of our conduct in that instance appear to have arisen from the
following circumstances, viz. :
1 st. That we entertained and were influenced by
distrusts and suspicions which do not seem to you to
have been altogether well founded.
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 3 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Place of Publication | New York, London |
| Date | [1890-93] |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000091 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 56 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. the continuance of that consideration will depend on the dignity and wisdom of her conduct. I mean to return next spring. My health is somewhat better. I am, dear sir, Your affectionate and humble servant, John Jay. jay to robert r. livingston. [Private.] Dear Robert : PASSY> x9th July> 1783. Our despatches by Barney must be ready the day after to-morrow. The many letters I have written and have still to write by him, together with conferences, company, etc., keep me fully employed. You will therefore excuse my not descending so much to particulars as both of us indeed might wish. As little that passes in Congress is kept entirely secret, we think it prudent at least to postpone giving you a more minute detail than you have already received, of the reasons which induced us to sign the provisional articles without previously communicating them to the French Minister. For your private satisfaction, however, I will make a few remarks on that subject. Your doubts respecting the propriety of our conduct in that instance appear to have arisen from the following circumstances, viz. : 1 st. That we entertained and were influenced by distrusts and suspicions which do not seem to you to have been altogether well founded. |
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