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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC02794.081
From Archive Folder	Tobias Lear papers
Title	Hamuda Bassa to Tobias Lear acknowledging receipt of letters and Lear's authority
Date	7 August 1805
Author	Bassa, Hamuda (fl. 1803-1807)
Recipient	Lear, Tobias
Document Type	Correspondence
Content Description	Manuscript copy of letter in a clerk's hand. The Bey of Tunis writes: "as you are authorized by the President I am entirely disposed to hear from you an explanation of your wishes . . . ."
Subjects	USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) Diplomacy Government and Civics Global History and Civics Barbary Coast Barbary Pirates Barbary Wars Africa Pirates President
People	Lear, Tobias (1762-1816) Bassa, Hamuda (fl. 1803-1807)
Place written	Tunis
Theme	Naval & Maritime; Government & Politics; Foreign Affairs; The Presidency
Sub-collection	The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
Transcript	Show/hide The Bashaw Bey of Tunis, the City well guarded the Residence of the Felicity.- To Mr. Tobias Lear, Consul general of the U States of America, attached to the Regency of Algiers, & at present on board the frigate Constitution, in the roads of Goletta.- Sir At this moment I receiv'd your second letter, of the day before yesterday, which was sent to me by a Captain of a frigate of your nation, who said he had commission to speak with me, by orders of your Commodore, but I did not see him.- Hearing now that the above mentioned Captain in Company with the messinger [sic] George Davis, has departed this morning to go on board; I send you direct by the had of Davis my answer, & I include you a Copy of what I wrote to you the day before yesterday repeating again as you are authorized by the President I am entirely disposed to hear from you an explanation of your wishes, and in consequence I expect you with pleasure, I repeat I wish to speak with you;- Be so good make my compliments to Commodore Rodgers & inform him that I also wrote to him the day before yesterday, & have no doubt but that the Messinger [sic] has consigned to him my answer.- I Salute you & I wish you all good /Sign'd/ Hamuda Bassaw Bey Dal Bardo di Tunis 7th Augt. 1805. 9 O'Clk AM

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