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Invoice of articles sent to Tunis and consigned to Tobias Lear

Same invoice as GLC 2794.109, but written in a different format. Unsigned copy. Docketed on verso.

GLC02794.110

to Tobias Lear re: thanks for protecting British interests, intro. new diplomat

Ball thanks Lear for "the attention you have shewn to [the] interests of the British Government in the absence of their late consuls Falcon and Cartwright." He introduces the new British Consul, "W. Blanckley." Ball also thanks Lear for a gift of a...

GLC02794.111

to Tobias Lear re: wrongly imprisoned and abused Portuguese [in French]

Signed by various Portuguese officers: Paulo Freire de Andrade, F. Bernardo Borges do Valle, Jose Bernardo de Hacerda, Diogo Ramire Esquivel, Joao Jose de Andrade, and Joao dos Santos. Letter mentions Portuguese wrongly imprisoned and beaten by...

GLC02794.112

to Thomas Jefferson re: U.S.-Tunis treaty [with translation]

Written in a clerk's hand, includes translation copy of the letter. "Thanks to [Lear's] reasonable & highly approved manner, few Conferences have served to remove the misunderstandings that mutually existed between us, and consolidate the good...

GLC02794.113

to Thomas Jefferson re: desire for peace between two nations [in Italian]

Written in a clerk's hand with clerical signature. Mentions Tobias Lear's efforts to maintain peace between U.S. and Tunis, as well as the Bashaw's peaceful intentions. Docketed on verso.

GLC02794.114