No. 93.
Mr. Fish to
Mr. Washburne.
Washington, March 2, 1877.
Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 1453, transmitting a compilation of all your official correspondence with reference to the Franco-German war. I have given directions that these papers shall be separately bound, and preserved with the archives of the Department. This volume will prove a most valuable and useful collection for future reference.
I believe that you are quite right in your estimate of the responsible, delicate, and onerous duties imposed upon you owing to the protection of the Germans in France during the Franco-German war, and I am glad of the opportunity of again expressing to you the satisfaction of this government with the manner in which you discharged those duties during those trying times.
[Page 138]The German Government, whose subjects you so much benefited, and the Government of France, with which you have long had efficient and pleasant relations, fully concur, as I believe, in this estimate of the manner in which those duties were performed.
I have, &c.,