1To Thomas Jefferson from Hamet Ebn Abdul Kadir, 18 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
In the name of the most merciful God!!! Praise be ascribed to the most merciful God who inspires his creatures with sentiments worthy of the excellence of his deity, to whom alone adoration is due— Hamet Ebn Abdul Kadir? unto the most Excellent Thomas Jefferson Emir, who commands Emirs, the most distinguish’d among Christians … Health Having enter’d into bonds of the strictest friendship with...