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Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816 to Hamuda Bassa re: the sovereign's refusal to meet with Lear

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02794.079 Author/Creator: Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816 Place Written: Tunis Bay Type: Autograph manuscript signed Date: 1805/08/05 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 22.7 cm, Width: 18.7 cm Order a Copy

Written aboard the "U.S.S. Constitution." Draft copy, with edits, of GLC 2794.080. "As George Davis Esq our Charge de Affairs at your Courts has informed me that . . . you refused to receive me a person authorized to transact any business of my nation with you, I find myself unable to execute the duty assigned me by the President of the U. States." Page two contains doodling. Docketed on verso.

Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816

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