Abstract
HE RECOGNITION of the independence of the United States is I one of the most interesting and imnportant events in the annals of diplomacy. Naturally, scholars have studied the negotiations of the diplomatic representatives and the instructions they received from their respective governments so fully that discoveries of new documents are becoming rarer. The Huntington Library has a collection of the papers of Thomas Townshend, created Lord Sydney in I783, Secretary of State in Shelburne's government. The gem of the collection, the original letter in which George III authorized Townshend to send to Paris the draft of the preliminary articles of peace, was reproduced in The Huntington Library Bulletin, Number i (93I, Pp. 202-4. The following six items come from the same source. They have their own introductory notes, so it is unnecessary to do more here than to suggest that the many changes in the cabinet minutes seem to show the extraordinary difficulty the members encountered in reaching a conclusion and finding the right words to express it. GODFREY DAVIES MARION TINLING
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