Letter
Rumsey Wing to Francisco Javier Leon, November 23, 1871
[Inclosure 1 in No. 165.]
Mr. Wing to Mr. Leon.
United States Legation, Quito, Ecuador, November 23, 1871.
Sir: I have recently received instructions from his excellency, Hon. Hamilton Fish, the American Secretary of State, to express to the government of Ecuador the, sense of pleasure with which the President of the United States has observed the cordial and complimentary terms in which your excellency has referred to the Government and people of the United States, in your recent report to the Ecuadorian congress. It is with great personal pleasure that I have the honor to obey these instructions.
Such interchanges of confidence and courtesy are calculated to draw more closely the ties of our commou republicanism and reciprocal friendship. With assurances of my very distinguished consideration have, &c,
RUMSEY WING.
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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 Pr.