Letter

Robert C. Schenck to Granville Leveson-Gower, June 1, 1872

Author

Robert C. Schenck

Recipient

Granville Leveson-Gower

Date

June 1, 1872

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 2 in No. 97.]

General Schenck to Earl Granville.

Legation of the United States, London, June 1, 1872.

My Lord: I received an hour ago your note of this date, in which you reply to the telegram of Mr. Fish, which I communicated to you this morning, and inform me that Her Majesty’s Government decline to sign a treaty of the character and with the arrangement for the future, suggested by Mr. Fish, but repeat their readiness to extend the time for the Arbitrators to meet at Geneva, for which purpose Sir Edward Thornton has full powers to sign a treaty; or they are willing, you state, to concur in a joint application to the Tribunal of Arbitration to adjourn their proceedings, which they are advised it is within the competence of the Arbitrators to do upon such an application without a fresh treaty.

I have sent the full text of your note to Mr. Fish by telegraph.

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 Pr 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 Pr.