The enclosed Letters to you and to Mr. Fox were written before I saw you yesterday. On my return home last night I found despatches from Congress which may remove the Difficulties we were entangled with. Mr. Adams will be here this Morning, when you will hear from us. I am ever Yours sincerely

Inclosed is my Letter to Mr. Fox. I beg you would assure him that my Expressions of Esteem for him are not mere Professions. I really think him a great Man, and I could not think so, if I did not think he was at bottom and would prove himself a good one. Guard him against mistaken notions of the American People. You have deceived yourselves too long with vain Expectations of reaping Advantage from our little Discontents. We are more thoroughly an enlightened People with respect to our Political Interests than perhaps any other under Heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his Circumstances as to have leisure for Conversation of Improvement, and for acquiring Information. Our domestic Misunderstandings, when we have them are of small Extent, tho’ monstrously magnified by your microscopic Newspapers. He who judges from them that we are on the point of falling into Anarchy, or returning to the obedience of Britain, is like one who being shewn some spots in the Sun, should fancy that the whole Disk would soon be overspread with them and that there would be an end of Daylight. The great Body of Intelligence among our People, surrounds and overpowers our petty Dissensions, as the Sun’s great Mass of fire diminishes and destroys his Spots. Do not therefore any longer delay the Evacuation of New York in the vain hope of a New Revolution in your favour, if such a Hope has indeed had any part in occasioning that Delay. It is now nine Months since the Evacuations were promised. You expect with Reason that the People of New York should do your Merchants Justice in the Payment of their old Debts; consider the Injustice you do them in keeping them so long out of their habitation, and out of their Business by which they might have been enabled to make Payment.

There is no Truth more clear to me than this that the great Interest of our two Countries is a thorough Reconciliation. Restraints on the Freedom of Commerce and Intercourse between us can afford no Advantage equivalent to the Mischief they will do by keeping up ill humour and promoting a total Alienation. Let you and I, my dear Friend, do our best towards advancing and securing that Reconciliation. We can do nothing that will in a dying hour afford us more solid satisfaction.

I wish you a prosperous Journey and a happy sight of your Friends. Present my best Respects to your good Brother and Sister and believe me ever with sincere and great Esteem Yours most affectionately

I received in its time the Letter you did me the honour of writing to me by Mr. Hartley. And I cannot let him depart without expressing my Satisfaction in his Conduct towards us and applauding the Prudence of that choice which sent us a Man possess’d of such a spirit of Conciliation, and of all that Frankness sincerity and Candour which naturally produce Confidence, and thereby facilitate the most difficult Negociations. Our Countries are now happily at Peace, on which I congratulate with you most cordially; and I beg you to be assured that as long as I have any concern in Publick Affairs, I shall readily and heartily concur with you, in promoting every Measure that may tend to promote the common Felicity. With great and sincere Esteem and Respect I have the honour to be Sir, Your most obedient and most humble Servant

Inclosed I send you an Extract of a Letter to me from the President of Congress in which you will observe the moderate disposition of that Body towards the Loyalists with the Causes of Aggravation in the People’s Resentments against them: I am, always invariably Yours most sincerely

You will receive herewith a Number of our Newspapers in which are inserted many resolves Associations &ca. from all Parts of the Country which I earnestly wish had not been made; but the truth is, that the Cruelties, Ravages and Barbarities of the Refugees and Loyalists have left the People so sore that it is not yet time for them to exercise the good Sense and cooler Judgment, and this cannot take Place while the Citizens of New York are kept out of their City and despoiled daily of their Property, by the sending off their Negroes by Hundreds in the Face of the Treaty. It has been exceedingly ill-judged in the British to retain New York so long and to persist in sending away the Negroes, as it has irritated the Citizens of America to an alarming degree. I am &ca.