Letter

Henry Trescot to Prince Kung, September 25, 1880

Author

Henry Trescot

Recipient

Prince Kung

Date

September 25, 1880

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 2 in No. 4.]

The commissioners plenipotentiary to Prince Kung.

September 25, 1880.

Your Imperial Highness: Upon our arrival at this capital we had the honor to receive your imperial highness’s communication addressed to Mr. Angell, and in response to his letter of August 23, by which we are informed that His Imperial Majesty has been pleased to appoint their excellencies Pao Chün and Li Hung Tsao commissioners plenipotentiary on the part of China to treat with us upon certain matters of interest now pending between the two governments.

The United States will not fail to appreciate the promptness and good disposition thus shown by the government of His Imperial Majesty, and in acknowledging receipt of your imperial highnesses communication, we beg leave to add the expression of our sincere desire, that through our deliberations results may be reached at an early moment which will prove beneficial alike to China and the United States.

We have, &c.,

JAMES B. ANGELL.
JOHN F. SWIFT.
W. H. TRESCOT.

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.