Letter

Angell to Prince Kung, December 18, 1880

Author

Angell

Recipient

Prince Kung

Date

December 18, 1880

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 2 in 75.]

Mr. Angell to Prince Kung.

December 18, 1880.

To His Imperial Highness Prince Kung:

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your imperial highness’s communication of December 10 instant, and the accompanying memorandum on official intercourse. I beg to express my appreciation of the just spirit in which your highness has considered the subject of official intercourse, which is not free from difficulties.

I desire to express my satisfaction with the forms of procedure which are given in your memorandum to govern provincial officers and consular officers in their official intercourse with each other.

I shall at once instruct the consuls of the United States to comply with the terms of the memorandum.

I gladly embrace this opportunity to assure your imperial highness of my distinguished consideration.

I am, &c.,

JAMES B. ANGELL.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.