Letter

Antonio Batres to Hall, August 29, 1882

Author

Antonio Batres

Recipient

Hall

Date

August 29, 1882

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 1 in No. 9.—Translation.]

Mr. Bátres to Mr. Hall.

Ministry of Foreign Relations of Guatemala, Guatemala, August 29, 1882.

Mr. Minister: This government has received information that General Don J. Rufino Barrios, President of this Republic, has left the United States of America to travel in Europe.

During all the sojourn of the meritorious General Barrios in the Great Republic of the North, he has been the subject of marked attentions and of unequivocal proofs of deferent consideration on the part of the government of the country you worthily represent.

The free institutions, the marvelous greatness, and the immense development of the American nation are on an elevation with the energy of its citizens, and of the enlightenment of its government; for these reasons, the manifestations made to General Barrios have profoundly excited the gratitude, not only of the government but of the people of Guatemala.

I have therefore the honor to request that you will be pleased to express to your government how great are the obligations this republic entertains for the kind attentions shown to its chief.

This acceptable opportunity affords, &c.,

ANTONIO BATRES.

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.