The best account of the peace negotiations is to be found in chapter ii. of Winsor's volume just cited, written by Hon. John Jay, who had already discussed the subject quite thoroughly in his _Address before the New York Historical Society on its Seventy-Ninth Anniversary_, Nov. 27, 1883. Of the highest value are Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice's _Life of Lord Shelburne_, 3 vols., London, 1875-76, and Adolphe de Circourt, _Histoire de l'action commune de la France et de l'Amérique, etc._, tome iii., _Documents originaux inédits_, Paris, 1876. See also Sparks, _Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution_, 12 vols., Boston, 1829-30; Trescot's _Diplomacy of the American Revolution_, N.Y., 1852; Lyman's _Diplomacy of the United States_, Boston, 1826; Elliot's _American Diplomatic Code_, 2 vols., Washington, 1834; Chalmers's _Collection of Treaties_, 2 vols., London, 1790; Lord Stanhope's _History of England_, vol. vii., London, 1853; Lecky's _History of England_, vol. iv., London, 1882; Lord John Russell's _Memorials of Fox_, 4 vols., London, 1853-57; Albemarle's _Rockingham and his Contemporaries_, 2 vols., London, 1852; Walpole's _Last Journals_, 2 vols., London, 1859; Force's _American Archives_, 4th series, 6 vols., Washington, 1839-46; John Adams's _Works_, 10 vols., Boston, 1850-56; Rives's _Life of Madison_, 3 vols., Boston, 1859-68; Madison's _Letters and other Writings_, 4 vols., Phila., 1865; the lives of Franklin, by Bigelow and Parton; the lives of Jay, by Jay, Flanders, and Whitelocke; Morse's _John Adams_, Boston, 1885; _Correspondence of George III. with Lord North_, 2 vols., London, 1867; Wharton's _Digest of International Law_, Washington, 1887, _Appendix_ to vol. iii.; Hale's _Franklin in France_, 2 vols., Boston, 1888. The view of the treaty set forth in 1830 by Sparks, according to which Jay and Adams were quite mistaken in their suspicions of the French court, we may now regard as disposed of by the evidence presented by Circourt and Fitzmaurice. It has led many writers astray, and even with all the lights which Mr. Bancroft has had, the account in the last revision of his _History of the United States_, vol. v., N.Y., 1886, though in some respects one of the best to be found in the general histories, still leaves much to be desired.