1To James Madison from Soliman Melimeni, 9 December 1805 (Madison Papers)
From Soliman Melimeni
2To James Madison from Soliman Melimeni, 13 December 1805 (Madison Papers)
Melimeni brought four Arabian horses with him as gifts for Jefferson (Brown,
3To 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,...
4To James Madison from Joseph Bryan, 3 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
For the horses brought from Tunis by Soliman Melimeni, see
5To James Madison from Soliman Melimeni, 7 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Soliman Melimeni. to Melimeni, 5 Feb. 1806
6To 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...
7To James Madison from Soliman Melimeni, 11 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
in James Leander Cathcart’s hand; docketed by Wagner. Written beneath Melimeni’s signature is Cathcart’s note: “The letter to which this certificate is annext was compiled by the subscriber from the oral communications of Sidi Suliman Mella Menni at the request of The Honble. the Secretary of State....
8To James Madison from Soliman Melimeni, 18 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
From Soliman Melimeni
9To James Madison from Soliman Melimeni, 7 April 1806 (Madison Papers)
signed in Arabic; docketed by Wagner. Written beneath Melimeni’s signature is Cathcart’s note: “Compiled from the verbal communications of Siddi Suliman Mella Menni By J L Cathcart.”
10To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 17 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
, 2:34). For the enclosures, see Melimeni to to Melimeni,