Letter

Sidney Eyerett to Walker Blaine, August 29, 1881

Author

Sidney Eyerett

Recipient

Walker Blaine

Date

August 29, 1881

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 295. Mr. Everett to Mr. Blaine.

Legation of the United States, Berlin, August 29, 1881. (Received September 15.)

No. 247.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge your instruction No. 340, of the 30th ultimo, as also your telegraphic instruction of the 26th instant, as follows:

Everett, Chargé, Berlin:

Leave copy Steuben invitation, No. 240, with imperial minister foreign affairs.

BLAINE, Secretary.

And to inform you that immediately on receipt of the former I inclosed a copy of it, with a note, to the acting minister of foreign affairs, a copy of which I inclose. The answer will be transmitted to you by cable as soon as received, and I hope to receive from you, in the mean time, some instruction as to the way and time of the conveyance of the invited guests to the United States, in case they accept the invitation.

I have, &c.,

H. SIDNEY EYERETT.

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.