Letter

Geo. Williamson to Hamilton Fish, December 21, 1873

Author

Geo. Williamson

Recipient

Hamilton Fish

Date

December 21, 1873

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 87. Mr. Williamson to Mr. Fish.

United States Legation in Central America, Guatemala, December 21, 1873. (Received February 5, 1874.)

No. 79.]

Sir: I have the honor to inclose you copies of my correspondence with the minister of foreign affairs of this government in regard to the prevention of war in these states. A letter verbatim et literatim? like the one addressed to me, was also addressed to Her Britannic Majesty’s minister, Mr. Edwin Corbett, who accompanied me to Costa Rica. After President Guardia had expressed his desire for peace, both of us showed him our letters.

You will observe no mention of the subject of the personal conference of the five Presidents is made in the letters of the minister of foreign affairs. That was owing to the fact that it was thought such a written expression would be unbecoming the dignity of the government of Guatemala; and as the letters referred to were intended to be exhibited in Costa Rica, it was omitted.

I have, &c.,

GEO. WILLIAMSON.

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.