Letter

Henry Trescot to Señor Balmaceda, January 12, 1882

Author

Henry Trescot

Recipient

Señor Balmaceda

Date

January 12, 1882

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 3 in No. 2.]

Mr. Trescot to Señor Balmaceda.

Gran Hotel Yngles, Santiago de Chili, January 12, 1882.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 11th instant, informing me that his excellency the President of the Republic of Chili has been pleased to appoint Friday, 13th of the present month, at 1 o’clock p. m., as the time of my public audience for the purpose of presenting the letters of credence of which I am the bearer.

While thanking your excellency for this communication, I beg that you will allow me to call your attention to an error in my official address, which I am satisfied is only a clerical oversight, but which my government would, I am sure, expect me to have corrected.

I am styled both in the superscription of the official envelope and in the address of the note itself, “Enviado Extraordinario Especial y Ministro Plenipotentiary de los Estados de Norte America.”

The style and title of the United States are “The United States of America.”

Your excellency’s familiarity with diplomatic usage will, I am sure, lead you to appreciate the propriety of the correction which I have the honor to ask.

Renewing the assurance of my highest consideration,

I am, your excellency’s obedient servant,

WM. HENRY 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.