Letter

Odo Russell to George Bancroft, June 10, 1872

Author

Odo Russell

Recipient

George Bancroft

Date

June 10, 1872

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure No. 1.]

Mr. Odo Russell to Mr. Bancroft.

British Embassy, Berlin, June 10, 1872.

Sir: The undersigned, Her Britannic Majesty’s Embassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to His Imperial Majesty the Émperor of Germany, has the honor to transmit to Mr. Bancroft, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Court of Berlin, in pursuance of the provisions of the thirty-sixth Article of the Treaty of Washington, of the 8th of May, 1871, copies, in duplicate, of the second and definitive statement of the British Government in the matter of the line of Boundary between the Territories of Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and those of the United States, which the undersigned has this day delivered to His Serene Highness Prince Bismarck to be laid before His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Germany. The undersigned will have the honor of furnishing Mr. Bancroft with additional copies of this statement if he should desire them.

The undersigned, &c.,

ODO RUSSELL.

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 Pr 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 Pr.