Letter
Casto Mendez Nunez to the Envoy Extraordinary and, March 15, 1866
[Translation.]
Admiral Mendez to Mr. Kilpatrick.
Frigate Numancia, Bay of Valparaiso, March 15, 1866.
Most Excellent Sir: I have the honor to inform your excellency that her Majesty the Queen, my Señor, in conferring upon me the command of her squadron in the Pacific, has deigned at the same time to commission me with full power possessed by my predecessor.
In begging your excellency to be pleased, as the worthy dean of the diplomatic corps, accredited in that capital, to place this fact before your distinguished colleagues, I avail myself of the occasion to offer to you the assurance of my high consideration.
CASTO MENDEZ NUNEZ.
His Excellency the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, Santiago de Chili.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty.