Letter

Partridge to I had previously and verbally returned thanks to the Viscount de Caravellas, the, August 21, 1875

Author

Partridge

Recipient

I had previously and verbally returned thanks to the Viscount de Caravellas, the

Date

August 21, 1875

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 83. Mr. Partridge to Mr. Fish.

United States Legation, Rio de Janeiro, August 21, 1875. (Received Sept. 20.)

No. 278.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatches numbered 154 (with inclosure—copy of a letter from Navy Department) and 155.

In obedience to the instruction in the former, I have written to the Baron de Cotegipe a communication expressing the sense entertained by the Government at Washington of the friendly service rendered to the United States frigate Lancaster by the Baron de Ivanheima and by the surgeon of the Brazilian navy, Doctor Ferreira de Rocha, returning the thanks of the Government therefor, and asking that those thanks may also be tendered to the Baron Ivanheima and Surgeon de Rocha.

A copy of that communication is hereto annexed.

I have, &c.,

JAMES R. PARTRIDGE.

I had previously and verbally returned thanks to the Viscount de Caravellas, the minister of foreign affairs at the time, in May last.

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.