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
3To James Madison from Soliman Melimeni, 9 December 1805 (Madison Papers)
From Soliman Melimeni
4To James Madison from Soliman Melimeni, 13 December 1805 (Madison Papers)
Melimeni brought four Arabian horses with him as gifts for Jefferson (Brown,
5To James Madison from Soliman Melimeni, 12 January 1806 (Madison Papers)
Filed with this letter is a 14 Jan. 1806 list (2 pp.; one page in Arabic; one in English, in Richard O’Brien’s hand; docketed by Wagner) of Melimeni’s household, which comprised two lieutenants, a secretary, a cook, a barber, a steward, three servants, and a translator, totaling eleven people including the ambassador. Although the copy in Arabic lists the translator as George,...
6To James Madison from Joseph Bryan, 3 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
For the horses brought from Tunis by Soliman Melimeni, see
7From 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...
8To James Madison from Soliman Melimeni, 7 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Soliman Melimeni. to Melimeni, 5 Feb. 1806
9To James Madison from Soliman Melimeni, 11 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Soliman Melimeni. 2 pp.; signed in Arabic; docketed by Wagner. Below Melimeni’s signature is a 10 Feb. 1806 note by James Leander Cathcart: “The letter to which this certificate is annext was compiled by the subscriber from the verbal communications of Siddi Suliman Mella Menni by request of the...
10From James Madison to Soliman Melimeni, 4 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
To Soliman Melimeni