Letter

Robert C. Schenck to General Schenck , Envoy Extraordinary and, April 5, 1873

Author

Robert C. Schenck

Recipient

General Schenck , Envoy Extraordinary and

Date

April 5, 1873

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 157. General Schenck to Mr. Fish.

Legation of the United States, London, April 5, 1873. (Received April 16.)

No. 370.]

Sir: The Royal Geographical Society have sent to me the gold medal awarded by them to Mr. H. M. Stanley, for his adventurous journey into the interior of Africa, and the succor given by him to Dr. Livingstone. They request me to transmit the medal to Mr. Stanley. I forward it to you, with the letter to me from Sir Henry Rawlinson, the president of the society, which accompanied it.

I was not able to give to Sir Henry, with any certainty, Mr. Stanley’s address in the United States; but I promised to send the medal to the State Department, and assured him that it would give you pleasure to take care that such honorable testimony to the energy and perseverance of an American citizen should be safely conveyed to him.

I have, &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.