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This author's decipherment reads:
e n l e r c h a n t & f a r
36. 18. 23. 3. 4. 13. 6. 14. 24. 18. 13. 16. 26. 4.
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23. 3. 4. The first two numbers, "36" and "18,"
must be errors.
18. Dana to Adams, Paris, 6 March 1781, in
Adams Papers, Roll 354; also Dana to Adams,
Paris, 1 February 1781, ibid., Roll 354.
19. Dana to Adams, Paris, 16 March 1781, in
ibid., Roll 354.
20. Lovell to Dana, 6 January 1781, in ibid.,
Roll 354. Lovell had reference to a mutiny of
Pennsylvania troops in January; another would
occur in June 1781 and a third in June 1783.
21. Several intercepted enciphered letters of
Cornwallis, dated 7 October 1780, to James
Wemyss and 7 November 1780, to Nesbitt Balfour,
may be found in the Papers of the Continental
Congress, Roll 65. Cf. Also Burnett, Revolutionary
Correspondence, 6: 223-224. The best and most
recent edition of this and related correspondence
may be found in Paul H. Smith, ed., Letters of
Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789 (Washington
D.C.: Library of Congress, 1981-i991), 7:290-292:
i6:552-553: 17:301-302: i8:63-65, 82-83, and 131.
Also cf. Howard H. Peckham, "British Secret
Writing in the Revolution," Michigan Alumnus
Quarterly Review, 44:126-131.
22. Love11 to Nathanael Greene,
Philadelphia, 21 September 1781, in Burnett,
Revolutionary Correspondence, 6:224.
23. Love11 to Robert R. Livingston, Ringwood
Iron Works, New Jersey, 19 April 1782, in the
Papers of the Continental Congress, Roll 65.
24. Elias Boudinot, Journal oil Historical
Recollections of American Events during the
Revolutionary War, as quoted in Burnett,
Revolutionary Correspondence, 6:239-240. Also
cf. Cornwallis to Clinton, 8 September 1781,
enciphered letter in Institute Francais de
Washington, ed., Correspoizdence of General
Wushington to Comte de Grasse 1781
(Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office,
1931), 27-28. Also, cf. John Laurens to the
President of Congress, n.p. g April 1781, in Papers
of the Continental Congress, Roll 65, in which he
enclosed intercepted dispatches bound from
Falmouth to New York.
25. Love11 to Gerry, 5 June 1781, as quoted in
Butterfield and Friedlaender, Adams Family,
4:395.
26. Randolph to Madison, Virginia, 5 July
1782, in William T. Hutchinson and William M.
Rachal, eds., The Papers of James Madison,
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967),
4:346: also Irving Brant, James Madison: The
Nationalist, 1780-1787 (Indianapolis: Bobbs-
Merrill, 1961)2:194, fn. 440.
27. Randolph to Madison, Petters Near
Richmond, 27 September 1782, and Richmond, 22
November 1782, in Hutchinson and Rachal,
Papers, 5166,307.
28. Dana to Livingston, St. Petersburg, 1
November 1782, in Wharton, Revolutionary
Correspondence, 5:841. The Adams-Dana cipher,
18 October 1782, is in the Adams Papers, Roll 602.
29. Richard B. Morris, ed., John Jay: The
Making of a Revolutionary (New Yorli: Harper &
Row, 1975)i: 662 for a description of the Jay-
Livingston problems with this cipher. Cf. Papers of
the Continental Congress, Roll 72.
30. Dana to Livingston, St. Petersburg, 6
April 1783, in Papers of the Continental Congress,
Roll 72.
31. Cf. the cipher in ibid., Roll 27.
32. Livingstoil to Jay, Philadelphia, 26
August 1780, Morris, John Jay, ~809-813, cf. also
1:661.
33. A copy may be found in Papers of the
Continental Congress, Roll 72; the cipher is also in
Roll 72.
34. For the JOHN cipher, cf. ibid. Roll 72.