Letter

Ernest Dichman to Mr. Payan, July 21, 1881

Author

Ernest Dichman

Recipient

Mr. Payan

Date

July 21, 1881

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 2 in No. 301.]

Mr. Dichman to Mr. Payan.

Legation of the United States, Bogotà, July 21, 1881.

Sir: I have to thank you for your polite communication No. 3211 of the 14th instant, in which you are pleased to inform me that, in recognition of the devotion to duty, zeal, and interest manifested by Mr. H. R. Lemly, in his relations with the School of Civil and Military Engineering, the executive power of Colombia has seen fit to appoint him director of said school and confer upon him also the rank of colonel in the Colombian Guard.

As Mr. Lemly is an officer of the Army of the United States it will no doubt be gratifying to the honorable Secretary of War at Washington to learn of the well-merited appreciation and esteem which Mr. Lemly enjoys in Colombia, and the consideration and distinction which he has received from your hands, and I shall therefore take the first opportunity of transmitting a copy of your No. 3211, above mentioned, for the information of my government.

Be pleased, &c.,

ERNEST DICHMAN.

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.