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- GLC#
- GLC02794.111-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1806/09/30
- Author/Creator
- Ball, Alexander, fl. 1806
- Title
- to Tobias Lear re: thanks for protecting British interests, intro. new diplomat
- Place Written
- Malta
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 24 cm, Width: 18.8 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
Ball thanks Lear for "the attention you have shewn to [the] interests of the British Government in the absence of their late consuls Falcon and Cartwright." He introduces the new British Consul, "W. Blanckley." Ball also thanks Lear for a gift of a "Horn of a Rhinoceros set in gold," mentions a return gift and the fact that Lear was planning to return to America. Attached to GLC 2794.094. Sir Alexander Ball was the governor at Malta. Docketed on p. 4.
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