Letter

Busch to Sidney Everett, September 21, 1881

Author

Busch

Recipient

Sidney Everett

Date

September 21, 1881

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 1 in No. 254.—Translation.]

Dr. Busch to Mr. Everett.

Foreign Office, Berlin, September 21, 1881.

The undersigned has the honor to state, in reply to the esteemed note of the 25th ultimo, of the chargé d’affaires of the United States of America, Mr. H. Sidney Everett, that he did not fail at the proper time to transmit to the royal Prussian officers named therein the invitation in which the present representatives of the von Steuben family are invited in the name of the President and people of the United States to attend the centennial celebration of the capitulation of the English army at Yorktown as guests of the government.

The undersigned is gratified to be able to inform the chargé d’affaires to-day that the officers referred to gladly accept the invitation by which they have been honored.

The undersigned avails himself of this occasion, &c.

BUSCH.

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.