Letter

Balluzeck to Anson Burlingame, June 1, 1863

Author

Balluzeck

Recipient

Anson Burlingame

Date

June 1, 1863

Type

Letter

Language

English

Colonel Balluzeck to Mr. Burlingame

Legation of Russia in China, Peking, June 1, 1863.

Mr. Minister: I have the honor of announcing to you that his Majesty the Emperor, my august master, having deigned to accord me authority to return to Russia, I leave shortly my post of representative of his Majesty in China, and that Mr. de Glinka, secretary of this legation, remains chargé d’affaires of the Emperor at Peking until the arrival of my successor.

Permit me to express here the hope that your excellency will continue to accord to Mr. Glinka the same warm regard that I have constantly received from you, and to manifest the wish that you may be well persuaded that the remembrance of the amicable relations which have not ceased to exist between us will always be precious to me.

I desire earnestly that our personal connexions, in losing their official character, may not be entirely broken; and it is in this thought that I renew, Mr. Minister, the expression of the very high consideration with which I have the honor to be, of your excelleney, the very humble and very obedient servant,

L. D. BALLUZECK.

Anson Burlingame, Esq., &c., &c., &c.

Topics

19th Century Civil War Diplomacy

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth .