Letter

Robert C. Schenck to Robert C. Schenck, November 7, 1874

Author

Robert C. Schenck

Recipient

Robert C. Schenck

Date

November 7, 1874

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 256. General Schenck to Mr. Fish.

Legation of the United States, London, November 7, 1874. (Received November 19.)

No. 634.]

Sir: Referring to my last dispatch preceding this, I have now to report that I had a note last evening from Lord Derby, informing me that a telegram has been received by Her Majesty’s secretary of state for the colonies, stating that the free use of their telegraphs has been granted by the governments of Victoria and South Australia to the American astronomers engaged in observing the transit of Venus. I have just sent an acknowledgment to his lordship, expressing my thanks to Her Majesty’s government for their promptness in forwarding my application, and to the colonial authorities for their liberal compliance with the request of my Government.

I inclose herewith copies of Lord Derby’s note and my answer.

You will probably think proper to inform the Secretary of the Navy that the arrangement of the matter is accomplished as he desired.

I am, &c.,

ROBT. C. SCHENCK.

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.