1. The Committee for Foreign Affairs sent this commission and the accompanying instructions of the same date, below, under cover of a letter of
1 Sept. (
PCC, No. 79, I, f. 286;
Wharton ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev.
, 4:683). JA received the letter and its enclosures on the evening of 23 Nov. (
Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev.
, 4:868).