This is a letter bearing the signature of Raymond A. Hare.

Raymond Arthur Hare (1901-1994) was an 

American diplomat who was Director General 

of the United States Foreign Service from 

1954 to 1956, and Assistant Secretary of State 

for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from 

1965 to 1966. Hare served as a United States

Ambassador to several Middle Eastern countries,

including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey,

and North Yemen.

Hare became Second Secretary at the U.S. 

embassy in Cairo in 1939. In 1944, Hare was 

assigned to the U.S. Embassy in London, 

where he was responsible for coordinating 

British and American policy towards the 

Middle East. He later served as an advisor 

at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference.

After the war, Hare was sent to the National 

War College. He was later assigned to Nepal 

to serve as deputy chief of mission. Hare 

became Chief of the Division of South Asian 

Affairs at the State Department in 1947; 

Deputy Director of the Office of Near Eastern 

and African Affairs in 1948; and Deputy 

Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, 

South Asian, and African Affairs in 1949. In 

the latter capacity, Hare drafted and negotiated 

the Tripartite Declaration of 1950, by which 

the British, the French, and the U.S. agreed 

to limit arms sales to the Middle East in the 

wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

In 1950, Hare was appointed U.S. Ambassador 

to Saudi Arabia. In 1953, he became ambassador 

to Lebanon. Less than a year later, he become 

the Director General of the United States Foreign 

Service, serving in that position for two years.

In 1956, Hare was appointed Ambassador 

to Egypt. He arrived in Cairo shortly before 

the Suez Crisis began. 

Hare was ambassador to North Yemen in 1959. 

In 1960, Hare was named ambassador to Turkey, 

serving in that position until 1965. 

Hare was appointed Assistant Secretary of State 

for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs in 1965, 

serving from September 22, 1965 until late 1966. 

After his retirement from governmental service,

Hare was president of the Middle East Institute, 

from 1966 to 1969.

The letter is addressed to Charles R. Burrows,

(1910-1986), a Foreign Service officer who is 

best known for having been the U.S. Ambassador 

to Honduras from 1960 to 1965.

Burrows served as U.S. Vice Consul in Havana, 

Cuba, in 1939; in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from

1943 to 1946; as U.S. Consul in Ciudad Trujillo, 

Dominican Republic, in 1949; and also in various

diplomatic offices in several other countries, such

as Venezuela, Peru, Mexico, and the Philippines.

The letter is dated August 28, 1956, exactly

two weeks after Hare was appointed to be

the United States Ambassador to Egypt.

The signed letter comes with a certificate 

of authenticity from JG Autographs.

The letter and the COA are enclosed in 

a plastic page, which is open at the top, 

allowing easy access, while keeping 

the letter protected.

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