Letter

José Manuel Balmaceda to Henry Trescot, January 12, 1882

Author

José Manuel Balmaceda

Recipient

Henry Trescot

Date

January 12, 1882

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 4 in No. 2.]

Reply of Señor Balmaceda to Mr. Trescot.

Republic of Chili, Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Colonization, Santiago, January 12, 1882.

Sir: I have just received a note which your excellency did me the honor to address me of this date, for the purpose of asking me to change the address on communications that may be sent to you, by placing “The United States of America” in place of the United States of North America.

The official address which your excellency has seen on the dispatches which I have had the pleasure of sending to you is the same as has always been used by this office in its communications to the legation of the United States. However, I hasten to make a note of your remarks, which shall be attended to in future.

I take advantage of this occasion to reiterate to your excellency the expression of my sentiments of high consideration, with which I remain your excellency’s attentive and true servant,

BALMACEDA.

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.