Letter

José Zilveti to Charles Adams, February 24, 1882

Author

José Zilveti

Recipient

Charles Adams

Date

February 24, 1882

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 2 in No. 92.—Translation.]

Señor Zilveti to Mr. Adams

Ministry of Foreign Relations of Bolivia, La Paz, February 24, 1882.

Sir: On the 18th instant i had the honor to receive your excellency’s note of the 16th. with which you were kind enough to transmit a copy of a dispatch from the Department of State of the United States to the legation which your excellency so worthily occupies, intended to invite the Government of Bolivia to an American Congress which shall meet at Washington on the 22d of November of this year.

Consequently, your excellency has been pleased to invite my government officially to send its representatives to said congress, which is called to deliberate upon matters affecting the future peace and prosperity of all the nations of the continent.

This very important dispatch received from your excellency will be brought to the knowledge of my government, and I am sure it will be appreciated as it deserves, for the high ends which this government has in view to the benefit of America and the stability of its governments, as well as for the like high propositions with which the most excellent government of the United States initiates the meeting of the congress at Washington.

It shall be very agreeable to me to transmit to your excellency the reply of the Government of Bolivia. Meanwhile, &c.,

P. JOSÉ ZILVETI.

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.