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Hamilton Fish to Mr. Washhurne, February 24, 1871
No. 108. Mr. Fish to Mr. Washhurne No. 239.] Department of State, Washington, February 24, 1871. Sir: Your Nos. 350, 353, and 358, severally dated 23d, 30th ultimo, and 4th…
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Letters from Hamilton Fish
B. 1808 · D. 1893
Hamilton Fish was an American statesman who served as the sixteenth governor of New York from 1849 to 1850, a United States senator from New York from 1851 to 1857, and the 26th U.S. secretary of state from 1869 to 1877. Fish was the most trusted advisor to President Ulysses S. Grant and recognized as the pillar of Grant's presidency. He is considered one of the nation's most effective U.S. secretaries of state by scholars, known for his judiciousness and efforts towards reform and diplomatic moderation. He settled the controversial Alabama Claims with the United Kingdom, developing the concept of international arbitration and avoided war with Spain over Cuban independence by coolly handling the volatile Virginius incident. He also organized a peace conference and treaty between South American countries and Spain.
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Hamilton Fish to George Bancroft, February 24, 1871
No. 164. Mr. Fish to Mr. Bancroft No. 296.] Department of State, Washington, February 24, 1871. Sir: I have received your No. 183 of the 21st ultimo, accompanied by the…
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Hamilton Fish to Friedrich von Gerolt, March 9, 1871
No. 190. Mr. Fish to Baron Gerolt Department of State, Washington, March 9, 1871. The undersigned has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the note of Baron Gerolt of…
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Hamilton Fish to Frederick F. Low, March 20, 1871
No. 27. Mr. Fish to Mr. Low No. 37.] Department of State, Washington, March 20, 1871. Sir: This Government received, with great satisfaction, in the year 1868, evidences that the…
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Hamilton Fish to Henry Baxter, March 20, 1871
No. 256. Mr. Fish to Mr. Baxter No. 19.] Department of State, Washington, March 20, 1871. Sir: Your dispatches Nos. 22 and 23, of the 7th and 13th ultimos, have…
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Hamilton Fish to Frederick W. Washburne, March 21, 1871
No. 117. Mr. Fish to Mr. Washburne No. 249.] Department of State, Washington, March 21, 1871. Sir: Your Government has sympathized deeply with you in the trials and privations and…
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Hamilton Fish to E. B. Washburne stands for Elihu Benjamin Washburne, March 21, 1871
No. 117. Mr. Fish to Mr. Washburne No. 249.] Department of State, Washington, March 21, 1871. Sir: Your Government has sympathized deeply with you in the trials and privations and…
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Hamilton Fish to Rumsey Wing, March 23, 1871
No. 79. Mr. Fish to Mr. Wing No. 35.] Department of State, Washington, March 23, 1871. Sir: Your dispatch No. 64, of the 30th of January, in regard to the…
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Hamilton Fish to E. B. Washburne stands for Elihu Benjamin Washburne, April 3, 1871
No. 124. [Extract.] Mr. Fish to Mr. Washburne No. 256.] Department of State, Washington, April 3, 1871. Sir: Your No. 389, relating to the protection of American property in Paris…
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Hamilton Fish to Stephen A. Hurlbut, April 10, 1871
No. 52. Mr. Fish to Mr. Hurlbut. No. 37.] Department of State, Washington, April 10, 1871. Sir: I transmit a copy of a letter of the 6th instant, addressed to…
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Hamilton Fish to George Bancroft, April 17, 1871
No. 168. Mr. Fish to Mr. Bancroft No. 319.] Department of State, Washington, April 17, 1871. Sir: I have received, and perused with much interest, your dispatch of the 22d…
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Hamilton Fish to E. B. Washburne stands for Elihu Benjamin Washburne, April 28, 1871
No. 136. Mr. Fish to Mr. Washburne No. 272.] Department of State, Washington, April 28, 1871. Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch of the 8th instant,…
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Hamilton Fish to Sir Edward Thornton, April 29, 1871
No. 219. Mr. Fish to Sir Edward Thornton Department of State, Washington, April 29, 1871. Sir: Information has reached this Department that the Canadian engineers engaged in constructing a wagon-road…
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Circular., May 2, 1871.
Circular. Department of State, Washington, May 2, 1871. The United States have concluded treaties regulating the rights persons who have emigrated from the dominions of one of the contracting parties,…
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Hamilton Fish to Sir Edward Thornton, May 8, 1871
No. 221. Mr. Fish to Sir Edward Thornton Department of State, Washington, May 8, 1871. Sir: As several articles of the treaty which has been signed this day, relating to…
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Hamilton Fish to And whereas the said treaty has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective ratifications of the same were exchanged in the city of London, on the seventeenth day of June, 1871, by Robert C. Schenck, envoy extraordinary and, May 8, 1871
No. 236. Treaty between the United States and Great Britain.—Claims, fisheries, navigation of the St. Lawrence, &c., American lumber on the river St. John, boundary.—Concluded May 8, 1871; ratifications exchanged…
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[Treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the settlement of pending questions between the two countries, concluded at Washington, on the 8th of May, 1871], May 8, 1871
[Treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the settlement of pending questions between the two countries, concluded at Washington, on the 8th of May, 1871] [Washington, May 8,…
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Hamilton Fish to Perez, May 11, 1871
No. 67. Mr. Fish to Mr. Perez Department of State, Washington, May 11, 1871. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 3d instant,…
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Hamilton Fish to Henry Baxter, May 12, 1871
No. 258. Mr. Fish to Mr. Baxter No. 21.] Department of State, Washington, May 12, 1871. Sir: Your dispatch No. 25, of the 1st ultimo, has been received. The Department…
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Hamilton Fish to Clinton Wright, May 25, 1871
No. 13. Mr. Fish to Mr. Wright No. 65.] Department of State, Washington, May 25, 1871. Sir: Your dispatch No. 169, of the 19th ultimo, reporting an interview with the…
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Hamilton Fish to Robert C. Schenck, May 25, 1871
No. 206. Mr. Fish to General Schenck No. 4.] Department of State, Washington, May 25, 1871. Sir: The Senate having advised and consented thereto, the President has ratified the treaty…
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Hamilton Fish to Perez, May 27, 1871
No. 65. Mr. Fish to Mr. Perez Department of State, Washington, May 27, 1871. Sir: Your note of the 15th ultimo, relative to the treaty between the United States and…
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Hamilton Fish to Partridge, June 10, 1871
No. 14. Mr. Fish to Mr. Partridge No. 3.] Department of State, Washington, June 10, 1871. Sir: By an instruction of the 7th of October, 1869, your predecessor was authorized…
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Hamilton Fish to The Diplomatic and, June 16, 1871
Circular No. 11. Department of State, Washington, June 16, 1871. Gentlemen: His Excellency, the President of the Swiss Confederation, has expressed to this Department, through the minister of the United…