Letter

Julius White to By the President: Wm. M. Evarts, February 12, 1880

Author

Julius White

Recipient

By the President: Wm. M. Evarts

Date

February 12, 1880

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 263. Mr. White to Mr. Evarts.

Legation of the United States, Berlin, February 12, 1880. (Received March 1.)

No. 89.]

Sir: I had the honor to receive this morning your telegraphic dispatch as follows:

Inform Fishery Exposition Commission that United States participates. Appropriation twenty thousand dollars. Three to five hundred meters space desired by us. Telegraph how much will he allowed.

I immediately went to the minister of agriculture and obtained the information desired, and have just telegraphed you as follows:

General satisfaction at American participation. Five hundred meters assigned. Government desires greatly, besides other things, samples of fishery products, and fresh fish, living or packed in ice.

To explain the latter part of this telegram, I take the liberty of inclosing a letter to Professor Baird, of the Smithsonian Institution.

I may here also reiterate the statement of the telegram regarding the feeling in government circles here at the decision of the United States Government. At the recent festivities at court, and in private circles, I have had occasion to meet many influential men, and they have invariably expressed very great satisfaction.

I have, &c.,

AND. D. WHITE.

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.