Letter

George Bancroft to Sir Edward Odo Russell, June 11, 1872

Author

George Bancroft

Recipient

Sir Edward Odo Russell

Date

June 11, 1872

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure No. 4.]

Mr Bancroft to Mr. Odo Russell.

American Legation, Berlin, June 11, 1872.

Sir: The undersigned, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Emperor of Germany, has the honor to transmit to Mr. Odo Russell, Her Britannic Majesty’s Embassador at Berlin, in pursuance of the thirty-sixth article of the Treaty of Washington of the 8th of May, 1871, copies in duplicate of the definitive reply of the Government of the United States to the Case of the Government of Her Britannic Majesty of December 13, 1871, which the undersigned has this day delivered to His Serene Highness the Prince of Bismarck, to be laid before His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Germany.

The undersigned will have the honor of furnishing Mr. Odo Russell with an additional copy of this statement, together with other copies, if he should desire them, and avails himself of this opportunity to renew, &c.

GEO. BANCROFT.

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 Pr 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 Pr.