1From James Madison to Dolley Madison, [ca. 11–18] November 1805 (Madison Papers)
Tunisian ambassador Soliman Melimeni, arrived at Norfolk in the
2From James Madison to Dolley Madison, 15 November 1805 (Madison Papers)
Tunisian ambassador Soliman Melimeni arrived at Washington in the
3From James Madison to Soliman Melimeni, 5 February 1806 (Madison Papers)
, Tunis, vol. 3; 12 pp.; in a clerk’s hand, signed in Arabic by Melimeni, with appended note by James Leander Cathcart stating that he had written the letter at Melimeni’s behest and that when he read an Italian translation to Melimeni and his translator, both had declared it a perfect translation of the instructions Melimeni had received from the bey), Melimeni stated that in April 1805 a...
4From James Madison to Soliman Melimeni, 4 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
To Soliman Melimeni
5From James Madison to Robert Smith, 6 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
to Soliman Melimeni, 4 Mar. 1806
6From James Madison to Soliman Melimeni, 17 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
To Soliman Melimeni
7From James Madison to Soliman Melimeni, 31 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
To Soliman Melimeni
8From James Madison to Tobias Lear, 15 May 1806 (Madison Papers)
and Soliman Melimeni about Tunisian demands, see to Melimeni, Mar. 1806, and Melimeni to
9From James Madison to James Leander Cathcart, 2 June 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...5 June 1806 Secretary of the Navy Robert Smith sent Cathcart a second copy of these instructions. He stated that the vessel that Thomas Jefferson had ordered to be prepared for the Tunisian ambassador, Soliman Melimeni, was “a copper bottomed well found Brig, built principally of live oak” mounting ten guns. It would be staffed by officers of the U.S. Navy and would take no passengers other...
10From James Madison to DeWitt Clinton, 25 July 1806 (Madison Papers)
For the original list of Melimeni’s household, see his