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Lot #263
Tobias Lear: Manuscript Copy of a Letter to Lear by Jusuf Hoggia, on Modifications to a Treaty with Tunis

Estimate: $100+

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Contemporary manuscript copy of a letter to Tobias Lear by Jusuf Hoggia, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 8 x 10, August 31, 1805. Untranslated letter in Italian pertaining to modifications to a treaty between Tunis and the United States, marked "Copia" at upper left. In fine condition. Lear was responsible for negotiating a peace treaty with the Bey of Tripoli that ended the first Barbary War.

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