Letter

Charles R. Lowell to Thomas George Baring, February 2, 1884

Author

Charles R. Lowell

Recipient

Thomas George Baring

Date

February 2, 1884

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 2 in No. 704—Private.]

Mr. Lowell to Lord Northbrook.

Legation of the United States, London, February 2, 1884.

My Dear Lord Northbrook: It is with an emotion for which the diplomatic phrase “peculiar satisfaction” is altogether too colorless that I hasten to acknowledge the reception of your private note of yesterday, informing me of the offer by Her Majesty’s Government of Her Majesty’s ship Alert as a gift to that of the United States, for the use of the Greely relief expedition. As I think the terms of your note more expressive than any that I could substitute for them, I shall this morning send a copy of it to Washington.

In the mean while I beg thus, in advance, to convey to you, and through you to Her Majesty’s Government, I she thanks of the President for this particularly timely and graceful recognition of that international courtesy which I trust will always characterize the intercourse of our respective countries.

Faithfully yours,

J. R. LOWELL.

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.