Letter

P. de Borchegrave D ’alténa to Nicholas Fish, August 1, 1885

[Inclosure 2 in No. 349.—Translation.]

Count de Borchegrave to Mr. Fish.

Mr. Minister: The King charges me to inform you that His Majesty has named Mr. Edmond van Eetvelde as administrator-general of the department of foreign affairs of the Independent State of the Congo.

His Majesty will be obliged to yon to kindly convey to your Government the fact of this choice, and to transmit to it the inclosed letter of the administrator-general.

I beg you, &c.,

The Secretary of the King:

Count P. de BORCHEGRAVE d’ALTÉNA.
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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.