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- GLC#
- GLC02794.080-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1805/08/05
- Author/Creator
- Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816
- Title
- to Hamuda Bassa re: the sovereign's refusal to meet with Lear
- Place Written
- Tunis Bay
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 24.6 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
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.
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