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To John Jay from Floridablanca, 3 July 1780

From Floridablanca

[Au Palais ce 3 Juillet 1780]

Le Comte Floridablanca fait bien ses compliments a Mr de Jay et le prie de lui faire savoir a quel terme ou quelle epoque doivent etre payées les dernieres Lettres de change dont il fit mention l’autre jour, comme etant entre les mains de Mrs de Joyes et pouvant monter a environs dix ou once mill piastres.1

[Translation]

[At the Palace 3 July—80.]

The C. de F. B. prests. his Cts to M Jay, & prays to be informed when the last Bills of exchange, which he mentioned the other day as being in the hands of Mrs: Joyce, & amountg. to abt. 10 or 11,000 dollars, will become Due payable

RC, in French, with draft English translation in the hand of Henry Brockholst Livingston, NNC (EJ: 8252). Endorsed: “ . . . Recd 4 Inst—”. FC, in French, SpMaAHN: Estado, leg. 3884, exp. 4, doc. 58 (EJ: 12139). C, in French with English translation, enclosed in JJ to the President of Congress, 6 Nov., below, LbkCs, DNA: PCC, item 110, 1: 235 (EJ: 4125); NNC: JJ Lbk. 1; CSmH.

1. The final phrase of the FC (EJ: 12139) reads: “qui reviendroient dix ou once mil piastres et qui se trouvoient au pourvoir des Mrs. Joyes.”

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    To John Jay from Floridablanca, 3 July 1780
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    Floridablanca, José Monino, conde de
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    Jay, John
    Date
    3 July 1780

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    “To John Jay from Floridablanca, 3 July 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jay/01-02-02-0070. [Original source: The Selected Papers of John Jay, vol. 2, 1780–1782, ed. Elizabeth M. Nuxoll. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, pp. 186–187.]

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