Letter

To the Right Hon. the Earl of Derby to Robert C. Schenck, October 31, 1874

Author

To the Right Hon. the Earl of Derby

Recipient

Robert C. Schenck

Date

October 31, 1874

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure in No. 633.]

Lord Derby to General Schenck.

Foreign Office, October 31, 1874.

Sir: With reference to my note of the 23d instant, I have now the honor to state to you that Her Majesty’s secretary of state for the colonies, has informed me that, in accordance with the wish expressed in your note of the 21st instant, his lordship has addressed a telegram, it being now too late to write to the colonies, to the governments of Victoria and South Australia to the effect that the United States Government has requested to be allowed the free use of the telegraph between Melbourne, Adelaide, and Port Darwin for the American astronomers engaged in observing the transit of Venus, and expressing the hope of Her Majesty’s government that facilities will be granted to those gentlemen on their applying to the colonial governments.

I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,

DERBY.

General R. C. Schenck, &c.

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.