Letter

Duffie to Admiral Arias, July 24, 1873

[Inclosure 1.—Translation.]

Mr. Duffie to Admiral Arias.

Your Excellency: Wishing to pass over to that arsenal for holding (accompanied by my vice-consul) a conference with your excellency, and having obtained from the chief of the volunteer forces a suspension of hostilities during said conference, I have to beg of your excellency if we can pass into the arsenal, the tiring ceasing also on the part of the forces under your excellency’s command during said period.

I am, &c.,

A. N. DUFFIE.

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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.