Letter

Robert C. Schenck to Granville Leveson-Gower, January 23, 1873

Author

Robert C. Schenck

Recipient

Granville Leveson-Gower

Date

January 23, 1873

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure No. 4.]

General Schenek to Earl Granville.

Legation of the United States, London, January 23, 1873.

My Lord: I have had the honor to receive your lordship’s note of the 17th instant, touching the letter to Mr. Fish from the Treasury Department of the United States of the 8th of August last, which I communicated to you on the 2d of September, 1872, requesting certain information for the use of my Government in regard to the laws in force in this country for the inspection of steamships; and I have much pleasure in expressing to you my thanks for the copies of a circular issued by the board of trade to their surveyors with regard to the machinery, hull, and equipments of steam-vessels, and the copy of a memorandum which has been drawn up at that department upon the subject, which you have been so good as to forward to me in your above-mentioned note.

I am, &c., &c., my lord, &c., &c.,

ROBERT 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.