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Caramanli, Ahmet, fl. 1808-1809 to George Davis.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02794.137 Author/Creator: Caramanli, Ahmet, fl. 1808-1809 Place Written: Malta Type: Manuscript document Date: 1809/03/17 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 23 cm, Width: 19 cm Order a Copy

Sidi Ahmet thanks Davis for his aid "for which myself, family and nation, must ever [inserted: feel &] pay you the homage of our eternal thanks." He also "conceived that more strongly to cement the good understanding you have brought about between my brother [Jusuf Bashaw Caramanli] and myself, and to evidence to him the full confidence his generosity towards me has excited, to expedite my son the bearer hereof to Tripoli . . . ." (Letter #20 in bound volume.)

Caramanli, Ahmet, fl. 1808-1809
Davis, George, fl. 1809

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