Schenck , Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary United States of America , 58 Great Cumberland Place to Robert C. Schenck, February 10, 1873

Paden Woondonk to General Schenck.

Dear General Schenck: As the departure of this embassy for Burmah will take place in a few days, and many pressing matters so occupy my time that I am unable to take farewell as I should have wished to do in person of your excellency, I hasten to do so by letter, and to express to you the sincere pleasure I have experienced in again renewing the acquaintance so happily formed with your excellency last year.

The documents you so kindly forwarded to me then through Mr. Shackleton Hallet have proved of the greatest service to me and to my government. On their excellent model have been drawn up the documents accrediting this embassy to the court of Her Britannic Majesty. I shall always be grateful to your excellency for that mark of your consideration; and my government will ever endeavor to show, by its kindly, considerate, and favorable treatment of such of the citizens of the United States as may visit Burmah, the desire that animates it to reciprocate the good offices shown to it by the minister of that great, illustrious, and powerful republic.

I trust that your excellency is enjoying good health, and that the members of your family, to whom, when last in London, I had the honor of being introduced, are also well. I beg you to remember me kindly to them and to your good secretary, Mr. Moran, and to accept yourself the assurance of my esteem and friendship, and also of the high consideration and esteem of my government.

I am, dear General Schenck, your excellences most obliged and obedient servant,