Note 13 — CORRESPONDENCE CONTINUED. (continued 8)

This proved to be an error. Mr Jay wrote to Doctor Franklin, on the 26th of January, 1783, as follows, "It having been suspected, that I concurred in the appointment of your grandson to the place of Secretary to the American Commission for Peace, at your instance, I think it right thus unsolicited to put it in your power to correct the mistake, &c." See the whole letter in Franklin's Correspondence, Vol. IV. p. 73.