Letter

Washburne to S. A. M. le Prince de Hohenlohe Schillingsfürst , German, December 26, 1874

Author

Washburne

Recipient

S. A. M. le Prince de Hohenlohe Schillingsfürst , German

Date

December 26, 1874

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 1 in No. 1074.]

Mr. Washburne to Prince Hohenlohe.

Legation of the United States, Paris, December 26, 1874.

My Dear Colleague: As the Congress of the United States has not given permission to its diplomatic and consular officers in France to receive certain recognitions from the German government for services rendered by them during the late war between France and Germany, it is proper to say that it will not be possible for me at present, or any future time, to receive any testimonial which your gracious sovereign might desire to present to me. I could not possibly receive anything more precious to me than the appreciation of what I was enabled to do by the German government, and the thanks of the Emperor, conveyed to me in the most generous and graceful terms by the Prince de Bismarck, and which will ever be most gratefully cherished.

Believe me, &c.,

E. B. WASHBURNE.

S. A. M. le Prince de Hohenlohe Schillingsfürst, German Ambassador, Paris.

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.