Letter

Julius White to By the President: Wm. M. Evarts, March 20, 1880

Author

Julius White

Recipient

By the President: Wm. M. Evarts

Date

March 20, 1880

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 267. Mr. White to Mr. Evarts.

Legation of the United States, Berlin, March 20, 1880. (Received April 8.)

No. 100.]

Sir: I have the honor to inclose a report relating to unclaimed estates in Germany and the laws affecting them, made at my request by Mr. Chapman Coleman, the second secretary of this legation. We have yearly a large number of applications from various parts of the United States, for information or aid regarding great estates in Germany supposed to be waiting for heirs. They are all more or less indefinite, many sad, and some ludicrous.

Mr. Coleman appears to have studied the matter very thoroughly, and it occurs to me that, were his report printed, it might save the Department and this legation considerable correspondence and many of our fellow-citizens the heart sickness which comes from hope long deferred.

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.