Letter

Hamilton Fish to Washburne, March 2, 1877

Author

Hamilton Fish

Recipient

Washburne

Date

March 2, 1877

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 93. Mr. Fish to Mr. Washburne.

Department of State, Washington, March 2, 1877.

No. 885.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 1453, transmitting a compilation of all your official correspondence with reference to the Franco-German war. I have given directions that these papers shall be separately bound, and preserved with the archives of the Department. This volume will prove a most valuable and useful collection for future reference.

I believe that you are quite right in your estimate of the responsible, delicate, and onerous duties imposed upon you owing to the protection of the Germans in France during the Franco-German war, and I am glad of the opportunity of again expressing to you the satisfaction of this government with the manner in which you discharged those duties during those trying times.

The German Government, whose subjects you so much benefited, and the Government of France, with which you have long had efficient and pleasant relations, fully concur, as I believe, in this estimate of the manner in which those duties were performed.

I have, &c.,

HAMILTON FISH.

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.