Letter

Gerolt to Hamilton Fish, February 16, 1871

Author

Gerolt

Recipient

Hamilton Fish

Date

February 16, 1871

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 187.

Baron Gerolt to Mr. Fish

Legation of the North German Union, Washington, February 16, 1871. (Received February 17.)

The undersigned, envoy and minister plenipotentiary of the North German Union, has the honor, in accordance with instructions received, most respectfully to transmit to the Hon. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State of the United States, copies of the following documents:

1st. A letter addressed by the Swiss envoy, Kern, and several other diplomatic agents, formerly accredited in Paris, under date of the 13th ultimo, to the chancellor of the Union, in which the adoption of measures is proposed which may allow the countrymen of the signers to go with their property during the siege to a place of safety.

2d. The reply thereto of Count von Bismarck, dated the 17th ultimo.

The undersigned gladly avails himself of this additional occasion to renew to the Hon. Hamilton Fish the expression of his most distinguished consideration.

FR. v. GEROLT.

Hon. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State of the United States, Washington, D. C.

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.