Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette
01/01/1785
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I have thought proper to nominate, and do hereby nominate, John Jay as envoy extraordinary of the United States to His Britannic Majesty.
A mission like this will announce to the world a solicitude for a friendly adjustment of our complaints and a reluctance to hostility.
My confidence in our minister plenipotentiary in London continues undiminished.
Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:I lay before you three letters from our minister in London, advices concerning t...