- GLC#
- GLC02794.096-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1805/08/22
- Author/Creator
- Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816
- Title
- to Sidi Josaph Sapatapa of Tunis re: treaty between Tunis and the U.S.
- Place Written
- Tunis
- Pagination
- 3 p. : docket : Height: 25.1 cm, Width: 20.2 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
Final draft of GLC 2794.095 in a clerk's hand with Lear's signature. Lear writes Sidi Jossaph, the Sapatapa (Prime Minister) to the Bey of Tunis to negotiate more favorable commerce and shipping agreements with Tunis, with the "object . . . to increase the harmony and good understanding which exists between" the U.S. and Tunis. Docketed on verso.
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