Murray Seeger, Discovering Russia: 200 Years of American Journalism, AuthorHouse, 2005, p. 97, ISBN 978-1-4208-4259-3. URL consultato il 7 gennaio 2013.
«In 1801 [...] President Jefferson initiated relations with the new czar, Alexander I, sending Leverett Harris, a political friend from Pennsylvania, as the first American consul-general to Russia. Russia tried to be a third-party meditator of peace in the war of 1812. However, Great Britain officials rejected this idea.»