Letter

Rufino de Elizalde to Alexander S. Asboth, October 17, 1866

[Translation.]

Señor Elizalde to Mr. Asboth.

The undersigned has had the honor to receive your excellency’s note of the 15th instant, requesting that a day and hour might be appointed that you might present your credentials accrediting you as minister resident of the United States of America near the government of the republic.

His excellency the vice-president of the republic, to whom I sent your excellency’s note, has appointed Saturday, the 20th, at 1 o’clock, to receive your excellency, and will then have the pleasure to answer your address, the duplicate of which your excellency enclosed.

The undersigned has the honor to offer to your excellency the assurances of his highest consideration.

RUFINO DE ELIZALDE.

His Excellency A. Asboth, &c., &c., &c.

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Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty 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 Second Session of the Thirty.