604 Etats-Unis, 1783 
Mar. 31. Saint-Dlzant , memoir on island of 
Oleron (f . 426) . 
Subjects Treated 
La Luzerne, letters and enclosures to Vergennes and 
Castries on his mission to Philadelphia; Congress and 
peace; resignation of Livingston; attitude of Congress 
towards loyalist claim for restitution of seized property; 
U.S. financial problems; American desire for peace subsidy; 
ratification of U.S. -Dutch treaty; evils in U.S. consti- 
tution and governmental administration; independent atti- 
tude of states towards Congress; attacks upon James Wilson; 
drafts on American agents in France; rates of exchange in 
U.S.; military affairs; services of Steuben; repatriation 
of Rochambeau's forces and financial problems involved; 
demand of U.S. army for fulfilment of promises made it; 
expedition against Jamaica; British evacuation of U.S.; 
exchange of prisoners; recall of American privateers; state 
boundary quarrels in U.S.; sale of vacant lands in U.S.; 
prices in Philadelphia; political discord in Pennsylvania; 
invitation to American loyalists to reside at St. Johns, 
Newfoundland; British settlement on Bay of Fundy; West 
Indian affairs; British trade with U.S.; Franco-American 
commerce, and value of this trade to France; U.S. attitude 
towards Spain; reaction of public opinion in U.S. to terms 
of peace; attitude of various states towards France and 
Britain; cessation of hostilities in U.S.; Washington' s 
reception of news of peace; religious toleration in U.S. 
and its results; attitude of Quakers; desire of R. Morris 
to resign; requests for retirement from J. Adams, B. Frank- 
lin, H. Laurens; gift of American Philosophical Society 
to Louis XVI (ff. 29-33, 35-38, 42-46, 48-53, 55-60, 62- 
71, 81-87, 91-95, 123-129, 132-147, 151-155, 157-161, 163- 
168, 180-187, 197-203, 208-211, 214-222, 257-261, 298-299, 
315-320, 330-344, 349-353, 355-364, 376-381, 388-391, 415- 
423, 427) . 
Vergennes, letters to La Luzerne; signature of French 
preliminary articles of peace; Dutch peace negotiations; 
general peace; French fishery rights; French trade with 
U.S.; Franco-American consular convention; French subsidies 
to U.S. for 1783 (ff. 72, 188-189). 
French trade with U.S.; American trade with French 
colonies; desires of French merchants concerning possible 
free ports for U.S. trade: Antibes, La Ciotat, La Rochelle, 
Lorient (ff. 6-11, 88-89, 98-103, 130-131, 148, 150, 156, 
162, 169-174, 176, 192, 205-206, 224-230, 247-250, 252-255, 
262, 290-297, 300-308, 322-325, 393-394, 425-426). 
Applications of individuals for favors, honors, jobs 
(ff. 4, 5, 177, 195, 204, 354). 
Claim of Lotbiniere to property Id America (ff. 16- 
27, 256, 392). 
Peace negotiations of American commissioners in Paris 
(ff . 14-15, 70-71) . 
Correspondence of Lafayette with Vergennes; return 
from America (ff . 28, 345) . 
Scientific interests of B. Franklin (ff. 386-387, 424). 
