Letter

Piper to William H. Seward, October 27, 1863

Author

Piper

Recipient

William H. Seward

Date

October 27, 1863

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Translation.]

Count Piper to Mr. Seward

Danish Legation, New York, October 27, 1863.

Mr. Secretary: The government of his Majesty the King of Denmark having had the satisfaction to be made aware of the particularly kind and efficacious manner in which the minister of the United States at Pekin sustained and seconded Colonel Raasloff in the negotiation of a treaty concluded this summer between Denmark and China, I have just received the order and hasten to become the interpreter to the government of the United States of the sincere gratitude which the Danish government entertains for the powerful aid with which the representative of the United States at Pekin, doubtless with the consent and order of his government, seconded and so largely contributed to the success of Colonel Raasloff’s efforts pending those negotiations.

I embrace, with eagerness, this occasion to offer to your excellency the renewed assurances of my highest consideration.

EDW. PIPER.

Topics

19th Century Civil War Diplomacy

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth .