Letter

Bancroft Davis to [This inclosure is embodied in Mr. Davis’s instructions to Mr. Washburne, No. 158, dated August 30, 1870. See, ante, “France.”], August 30, 1870

Mr. Davis to Mr. Bancroft.

No. 228.]

Sir: I transmit herewith a copy of a dispatch of this date to Mr. Washburne, in answer to a telegram received from him yesterday, which is embodied in the inclosure.

You are instructed to ask that proper measures may be taken by the government of North Germany for the protection of American property in Paris, in the event of the occupation of that city by the German forces.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

J. C. B. DAVIS.

[This inclosure is embodied in Mr. Davis’s instructions to Mr. Washburne, No. 158, dated August 30, 1870. See, ante, “France.”]

Notes
1. No. 141.
Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr 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 Pr.