Jefferson: Writings. Edited by P. L. Ford. New York: 1892-1899.—Volume V contains some correspondence on the Nootka affair.
Jefferson: Works. Congressional edition. Washington: 1853-1855.—Volume IX contains a few of the same as the last.
Hamilton: Works. Edited by H. C. Lodge. New York: 1885-86.—Volume IV contains a few documents on the subject.
Smith MSS.: Historical Manuscripts Commission. Twelfth report. Appendix, Part IX. London: 1891.—The manuscripts of Mr. Vernon Smith contained in this volume are the papers of his grandfather, Mr. Joseph Smith, Pitt’s private secretary. A few bear on the Nootka controversy.
Miles, W. A.: The Correspondence of, on the French Revolution, Edited by C. P. Miles. London: 1890.—Letters in Volume I make allusion to the mission which had been intrusted to him. He and Hugh Elliot were engaged on the same mysterious mission.
III. Secondary Sources.
[Burges, Sir James Bland]: Narrative of the Negotiations Occasioned by the Dispute Between England and Spain in the Year 1790. London: [1791].—This almost deserves to be classed among the published documents. It was prepared in the foreign office while the negotiations were in progress. The author’s name is not given, and has hitherto been unknown, but it may be safely asserted that it was compiled by Sir James Bland Burges, under-secretary of state for foreign affairs, especially for the King. It was printed shortly afterwards as an official document. It gives a full and faithful account of the British negotiations, and is more valuable for this than anything else that has ever been printed. Its extreme rarity makes it almost inaccessible, so that no previous writer has used it, though both Greenhow and Bancroft mention it. See [note a], p. 365, antea, and [note b], p. 460.
—— Archives Parlementaires de 1787 à 1860, Recueil complet des Débats Legislatifs et Politiques des Chambres Françaises. Premiere serie, Tome XV, Assemblée Nationale Constituante, du 21 April, 1790 au 30 Mai, 1790. Paris: 1883.—This contains documents concerning the arming of 14 ships of the line by France in May, 1790, and also the debate on the question of the right to make peace and war which the measure provoked. Volume 17 of this series contains discussions in the National Assembly concerning Spain and the family compact; and volume 18 contains Mirabeau’s report of August 25 on the same subject and the decrees of August 26.
—— The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to 1803 … Volume XXVIII (1789-1791). London: 1816.—This gives the debates in the British Houses of Parliament on the Nootka affair.
Bancroft, Hubert Howe: The Works of, Volume XXVII; History of the Northwest Coast, Volume I (1543-1800). San Francisco: 1884.—This is the fullest and one of the most reliable accounts hitherto published. The writer naturally pays more attention to the occurrences at Nootka than to the diplomatic controversy.