Appleton, to Bancroft Davis , Envoy, September 25, 1874
Mr. Appleton to Mr. Davis.
10 (2) Sidonian Strasse.
Dear Sir: I beg to express my thanks to you for your very prompt attention to my letter of September 23.
I am under still further obligations to you for calling attention of the State Department to the subject, as there are several Americans here in the same category with myself, as I had the honor to apprise you in my aforesaid communication of the 23d instant.
You suggest in your note that “in case I am paying taxes on my personal property in America, or hi case I may have paid income-tax to the United States, that it will be well to enable you to also inform the Department of the place of assessment and payment of such taxes.”
In answer, I have to state that all the property of which I am possessed is in the city of Boston, and that the taxes levied upon it, personal as well as real, and, I have no reason to doubt, income-tax also, have been regularly assessed, and duly paid by my representatives in Boston.
Renewing to you the expression of my thanks, I have the honor to be yours, &c.,
His Excellency Bancroft Davis, Envoy, &c., of the United States to Germany.