Letter

Frederick T. Frelinghuysen to Scruggs, February 5, 1883

Author

Frederick T. Frelinghuysen

Recipient

Scruggs

Date

February 5, 1883

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 100. Mr. Frelinghuysen to Mr. Scruggs.

Department of State, Washington, February 5, 1883.

No. 43.]

Sir: Your dispatch No. 55 of December 23 last has been received. You therein report the death of his excellency Dr. Francisco J. Zaldúa, President of the United States of Colombia, which occurred on the 21st of that month at the executive mansion.

It is the desire of the President that you will suitably convey to the minister for foreign affairs the condolences of the Government and people of the United States with those of Colombia in the affliction which they have been thus called upon to endure by the death of their late lamented President.

You will at the same time take occasion to deliver to the minister for foreign affairs the inclosed note, acknowledging one from Señor Perez of the 26th of December, 1882, announcing also the death of President Zaldúa.

I am, &c.,

FRED’K T. FRELINGHUYSEN.

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.