Charles Adams to Señor Zilveti, February 16, 1882

Mr. Adams to Señor Zilveti

Sir: Referring to our interview of yesterday, during which i had the honor to acquaint your excellency, verbally, with the contents of a dispatch received by me from my government and with the instructions therein contained, i have now the pleasure to transmit a true copy of the said dispatch and have the distinguished honor, formally and officially, and in the name of the President of the United States, to tender his invitation through you to his excellency the President of Bolivia to send two commissioners provided with full powers to an American Peace Congress, to be held in the city of Washington on the 22d day of November, 1882, for the purpose of deliberating and counseling with the commissioners of all other independent countries of America, who have likewise been invited, upon such matters as you will please find set forth by the Secretary of State of the United States in the inclosed dispatch, and which no words of mine could more fully elucidate.

I shall be gratified to be informed as soon as it may be convenient that after due consideration this invitation has been accepted by his excellency the President of Bolivia in the same spirit as it has been tendered, and I may be permitted to predict that, by means of this congress, the bonds of union and amity between the different American countries cannot fail to be augmented and firmly secured.

I take, &c.,