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Europe divided into its Empires, Kingdoms, States... [Wall Map on 4 sheets]

This map has an attractive depiction of Algiers and the Barbery states which is slightly larger than that for GLC# 4412.04 (Africa)

GLC04412.02

Petition to Dey of Algiers re: protecting consuls & families (in French)

Signed as American agent and consul general. With other signers from the European powers, written after the Consul of Denmark was thrown into chains by the Dey. The document is a declaration of solidarity protesting Algerian aggression. Also...

GLC04659

to Charles Cotton re: British treaty with Dey of Algiers (tipped into book)

GLC04212.02

to Joseph Pitcairn re: treaties before Congress, including one with Algiers

Written as American Vice-Consul to France.

GLC03575

to William Eustis re: treaty of Ghent, Napoleonic wars, and threat of Barbery

Discusses the Treaty of Ghent, Napoleonic Wars, threat of Barbary pirates, and the new Netherlands consititution. Re: the Napoleonic Wars, Adams writes: "France is a conquest, and as a conquest will be treated."

GLC03626

Diary kept at Algiers re: lodging, business, etc.

Diary kept from February to April.

GLC03767.01

Sketches of Algiers, political, historical and civil...

Printed by Cummings, Hilliard and Company. First edition. Original worn paperboards and quarter leather. Written by Shaler as American Consul General at Algiers. Includes chapter 7 "Extracts of the journal kept in the consulate of the United States...

GLC05246.04

to: Italian ambassador.

Written as British emissary, to the Italian ambassador, concerning an offer of $100,000 to prevent kidnappings of British nationals.

GLC05251

to Aaron Burr re: opinion on the government's response to Barbary pirates

Giving Burr his opinion about war with the Barbary states: "If the subject of carrying a war with... the Barbary States had been properly stated to the government, a more suitable force would have been provided."

GLC06907

to James Mease re: thanks for Mease's dissertation on canine madness

ALS in the third person, written horizontally and signed in text at the beginning. Thanking Mease for his "very learned and ingenious dissertation on canine madness" and discussing insanity. Jefferson mentions a cure by mercury of an American...

GLC06510

Boston weekly news-letter. [No. 1667 (January 22- January 29, 1736)]

Complete in 2 pages? Printed by F. Draper. Includes international news, Tunis, war on the Continent and Boston news.

GLC05667.02

to Richard Dale

The retired Commodore Truxtun writes to Commodore Dale with personal news and naval advice. Indicates that Dale was near "the theatre of the European War," referring to the first Barbary War, for which Truxtun declined a command. In a post script...

GLC02500.10

Printed authorization for U.S. Frigate "Congress" to seize ships of Tripoli

Specifically directed against the Bey of Tripoli (controversy with the Barbery states). With blind stamp of the U. S. Navy Dept. but not signed by the Secretary of Navy.

GLC00639.18

to Samuel Mitchill

President Jefferson sends New York Senator Mitchill an enclosed letter (not included) regarding a case involving General John Armstrong. He asks if the Tripoline Treaty experiences delay in the Senate. One full length seated engraving of Jefferson...

GLC01737

to Jonathan Trumbull re: American prisoners in Algiers

Written as President to Trumbull, Speaker of the House of Representatives, concerning the petition of American prisoners in Algiers which Trumbull forwarded.

GLC02793.001

Tobias Lear papers [Decimalized .001- .178]

The collection ranges from 1785-1867, with the bulk being 1785-ca. 1796 (items as Washington's personal secretary with some surveying and business correspondence), and 1800-1809 (the majority is correspondence from Lear's service as United States...

GLC02794

Treaty between the U.S. and the Dey & Regency of Algiers (c/s Timothy Pickering)

Signed as President and countersigned by Pickering as Secretary of State. English translation from the Arabic with clerical signatures for Vizier Hassan Bashan (the Dey of Algiers), Joseph Donaldson Jr. (American negotiator) and David Humphreys...

GLC02794.001

to Tobias Lear re: instructions for relations with the Dey of Algiers

Written as Secretary of State to Lear, who was serving as American Consul General at Algiers. Madison's letter of instruction concerns paying the annual tribute to Algiers, handling forged American passports, etc. A postscript adds: "the universal...

GLC02794.052

To: Bey of Tunis.

Copy of letter announcing appointment of Lear as Consul, with clerical countersignature of James Madison. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.053

Copy of treaty of peace and amity between the United States and Tripoli

In a clerk's hand with copy signatures of Tobias Lear and the various Tripolitan leaders involved in the treaty.

GLC02794.070

Copy of treaty of peace and amity between the United States and Tripoli

In a clerk's hand with copy signatures of Tobias Lear and the various Tripolitan leaders involved in the treaty.

GLC02794.071

to Tobias Lear re: praise for sending grain to relieve hunger in Algiers

Thornton praises Lear: "I cannot express the satisfaction I feel at the worthy Act you have done in sending Grain to Algiers when they were in destress [sic], & when it would have made you a very large Fortune you have done it on the part of...

GLC02794.094

to William Barker re: pension payment to Sidi Ahmet Caramanli

Written as U.S. Secretary of the Navy. Scribal copy bound together with GLC 2794.118, .120-.124, .128-.133, .135-.145 and .147-.151. (Letter #2 in bound volume.)

GLC02794.119

to Samuel Storer re: personal news & desire to have his son Lincoln join him

Marked "Duplicate" on first page. Written in a clerk's hand with Lear's signature. Lear thanks his brother-in-law, Storer, for letting his son, Lincoln, stay in Storer's home. Lear sends for Lincoln to join him in Algiers.

GLC02794.166

Message from the President... transmitting a Treaty of Peace...[with] Algiers

Printing a the treaty of peace between the U.S. and the Dey of Algiers with the statements of American peace commissioners Stephen Decatur and William Shaler. Printed by William A. Davis.

GLC02822