Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 1, 1873, Part I, General Correspondence; and Papers Relating to Naturalization and Expatriation, Volume I

No. 16.
Mr. Jay to Mr. Fish.

American Legation,
Vienna, March 13, 1873. (Received April 4.)

No. 562.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt at this legation of two copies of the “Foreign Relations of the United States, 1872.”

I observe that in this, as in previous volumes, by an error, which I presume has been wholly accidental, and to which I should sooner have called attention, the correspondence with this legation is given under the former title of “Austria,” and not under the present style of the empire, “Austria-Hungary”

The omission of Hungary in a work emanating from the Department might touch the quick sensibilities of the Hungarians, whom their excellencies the Count Andrassy and the Baron d’Orczy so prominently represent in the Foreign Office, The theory of the union, as exhibited in the number of the delegations and their alternate annual meeting at Vienna and Pesth, is that of the perfect equality of the two parts of the empire.

I respectfully beg leave to suggest that an instruction be given for the substitution of the correct title, “Austria-Hungary,” in all future volumes of “Foreign Relations,” “Commercial Relations,” or other documents emanating from the State Department.

I have, &c.,

JOHN JAY.