Bassa, Hamuda, fl. 1803-1807 to Tobias Lear re: Bey's attempt to avoid hostilities with the U.S.
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02794.086 Author/Creator: Bassa, Hamuda, fl. 1803-1807 Place Written: Tunis Type: Manuscript document Date: 1805/08/09 Pagination: 4 p. 19 x 8 cm Order a Copy
Manuscript copy of letter in a clerk's hand with copy signature. Bey writes: "you [Lear] are the sole person at this moment invested with the character & power of the President of your Government to treat with me on affairs relative to your Nation." Bey is defending his actions: "[r]ead that what I wrote to you . . . then tell me if you have found my pure intentions equivocal [. . . .] So far Am I from hostile ideas . . . that I now declare . . . that by me there shall not be made, nor any of my subjects permitted to make, the least alteration in the good friendship existing between us."
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