Letter

Washburne to Hamilton Fish, January 17, 1873

Author

Washburne

Recipient

Hamilton Fish

Date

January 17, 1873

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 100. Mr. Washburne to Mr. Fish.

Legation of the United States, Paris, January 17, 1873. (Received February 4.)

No. 752.]

Sir: There is nothing in the political situation at this moment that requires to be treated of in a dispatch. The “commission of thirty” is proceeding with its labors, and there is now greater harmony between it and M. Thiers than there has been. The public is looking forward with great impatience to the report and to the action thereon by the assembly.

There has been a wonderful absence of any demonstration over the death of the ex-Emperor, either in Paris or in France. I think the great parade made in England over the event has excited considerable feeling in government circles here.

I called to pay my respects to M. Thiers, at Versailles, last night, and was received by him very cordially and congratulated on my safe return. I thought he looked a little fatigued and worn. He promised to dine with me on the 22d proximo, the “Birthday of Washington.”

I have, &c.,

E. B. WASHBURNE.

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.