Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1870

No. 167.

Mr. Bancroft to Mr. Fish.

No. 146.]

American Legation, Berlin, October 3, 1870. (Received October 20.)

Sir: I have this moment received, a little in advance of the press, a lithographic copy of Count Bismarck’s account of his interview with Jules Favre. Having no time to make a translation or abstract of it before the closing of the mail, I send you the document as I received it from the Foreign Office.

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GEO. BANCROFT.

[For a translation of this inclosure see Baron Gerolt’s note to Mr. Fish of October 17, 1870, post.]