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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 #: GLC02794.080 Author/Creator: Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816 Place Written: Tunis Bay Type: Letter signed Date: 1805/08/05 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 24.6 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy

Final draft of GLC 2794.079 in a clerk's hand with Lear's signature. Written aboard the "U.S.S. Constitution." "As George Davis Esq our Charge d'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." Docketed on verso.

Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816

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