Letter

Francis to Count Szögyényi, January 12, 1885

Author

Francis

Recipient

Count Szögyényi

Date

January 12, 1885

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 10 in No. 53.]

Mr. Francis to Count Szögyényi.

Legation of the United States, Vienna, January 12, 1885.

Your Excellency: Referring to your excellency’s note of the 10th instant, No. 153/7, informing me that an order had been sent by telegraph directing the military authorities at Krakau to liberate on furlough the American citizen Louis (or Leibel) Feinknopf, pending decision by the Imperial Royal Government upon his case, I now hasten to transmit to your excellency a dispatch received at this legation this evening, by which it appears that up to the time when this dispatch was written (apparently at a late hour this afternoon) Feinknopf had not been granted the furlough as above.

I need scarcely assure your excellency that this delay involves additional embarrassment. To my mind, as I think it must also appear to your excellency, the course of the military authorities at Krakau in this matter seems entirely unjustifiable.

Your excellency will oblige me by returning the inclosed dispatch as convenience may permit.

I have, &c.,

JOHN M. FRANCIS.

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.