Letter

To the Imperial Chancellor, Prince Bismarck to Sargent, February 8, 1883

Author

To the Imperial Chancellor, Prince Bismarck

Recipient

Sargent

Date

February 8, 1883

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 2 in No. 107.—Translation.]

Prince Bismarck to Mr. Sargent.

Foreign Office, Berlin, February 8, 1883.

The undersigned has had the honor to receive the esteemed note of the 2d instant, inclosing the sum of 4,000 marks which the citizens of San Francisco have placed at the disposal of the inhabitants of the Rhine district devastated by the inundations, and has not failed to report the contribution in the highest quarter. His Majesty the Emperor has noted with deep interest the warm sympathy which the citizens of the United States evince for the sufferings of the inundated on the Rhine. It affords His Majesty great pleasure to perceive in this contribution another proof of the friendly relations which unite Germany and America.

The undersigned is authorized by His Majesty to express, in the name of the inundated, their warmest thanks to the citizens of San Francisco who made this contribution, and would request the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America, Mr. Sargent, to convey these thanks to them.

The undersigned gladly adopted measures looking to the speedy and direct distribution of the money sent to this office, as was requested, and to that end he asked the assiscance of the committee of the members of Parliament, who represent the devastated district, now sitting in the Reichstag, which was cheerfully accorded.

The undersigned avails, &c.,

BISMARCK.

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.