Letter

Sargent to Count Hatzfeldt, February 2, 1883

Author

Sargent

Recipient

Count Hatzfeldt

Date

February 2, 1883

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 1 in No. 107.]

Mr. Sargent to Count Hatzfeldt.

Legation of the United States, Berlin, February 2, 1883.

The undersigned, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America, has the honor to transmit herewith to his excellency Count Hatzfeldt, imperial secretary of state for foreign affairs, the sum of 4,000 marks Contributed by the citizens of the city of San Francisco, Cal., for the relief of the sufferers by the late inundations in the Rhine district.

The undersigned has taken the liberty of sending this subscription through the medium of the imperial foreign office, being convinced that the surest and most impartial distribution, in accordance with the benevolent intentions of the donors, will be thus secured, and respectfully requests his excellency to take such measures as may seem to him most proper, in order that this contribution to their relief may reach the sufferers as directly and speedily as possible.

The undersigned avails, &c.,

A. A. SARGENT.

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.