Tobias Lear diary, 1803 June 24 - October 23.

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Tobias Lear diary, 1803 June 24 - October 23.

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Lear discusses his day to day affairs including marriage to "my dear Fanny" [Frances Dandridge Henley]; boarding with [Thomas?] Law; initiation in the Masonic Lodge at Alexandria; dining with Jefferson and Madison, news of the Louisiana Purchase; July 4th celebration; journey to Boston via Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York; visit to his Portsmouth, N.H. home; a rumor, begun by John Marshall, that he had suppressed certain papers of George Washington; and preparations for the journey to Algiers on the U.S. Constitution under Edward Preble [no entries the month of the voyage.]. Lear writes at length about his diplomatic mission to Algiers to negotiate a treaty with Tripoli and the current situation with the Barbary pirates. He discusses the capture of an American brig; the replacement of Commodore Richard Morris; assistance to the H.M.S. Childers, an English brig in distress, whose captain, Sir George Bolton, was carrying dispatches to Lord Nelson; discussions on Barbary affairs with consuls James L. Cathcart and James Simpson; the arrival of the Emperor of Morocco in Tangiers and subsequent negotiations including ratification of the Treay of 1786; and attempts by British men of war to lure away American sailors. The diary ends on October 23, a week before the capture of William Bainbridge and the crew of the Philadelphia. Additional people mentioned in the diary include William Bainbridge, John Dandridge Henley, Isaac Hull, David Humphreys, Rufus King, Benjamin Lincoln, John Rodgers, Samuel Smith, James Sullivan, and the Marqués de Yrujo.

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