Office of the Historian

No. 295.
Mr. Everett to Mr. Blaine.

Legation of the United States,
Berlin, August 29, 1881. (Received September 15.)
No. 247.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge your instruction No. 340, of the 30th ultimo, as also your telegraphic instruction of the 26th instant, as follows:

Everett, Chargé, Berlin:

Leave copy Steuben invitation, No. 240, with imperial minister foreign affairs.

BLAINE, Secretary.

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And to inform you that immediately on receipt of the former I inclosed a copy of it, with a note, to the acting minister of foreign affairs, a copy of which I inclose. The answer will be transmitted to you by cable as soon as received, and I hope to receive from you, in the mean time, some instruction as to the way and time of the conveyance of the invited guests to the United States, in case they accept the invitation.

I have, &c.,

H. SIDNEY EYERETT.
[Inclosure in No. 247.]

Mr. Everett to Dr. Busch.

Legation of the United States,
Berlin, August 25, 1881.

The undersigned, chargé d’affaires ad interim of the United States of America, has the pleasure, under instructions from his government, to transmit to Dr. Busch, under secretary of state for foreign affairs, the inclosed invitation of the President and people of the United States to the representatives of Baron von Steuben to the approaching centennial celebration of the surrender of the British army at Yorktown, on the 19th October, 1781.

As near as the legation has been able to ascertain, the representatives of the Von Steuben family are as follows:

1.
Colonel von Steuben, Seventy-sixth Regiment Hildesheim.
2.
Captain von Steuben, Fourth Regiment of the Guards Spandau.
3.
Captain von Steuben, Eighth Regiment Frankfort-on-the-Main.
4.
Lieutenant von Steuben, Twenty-second Regiment Rastatt.
5.
Lieutenant von Steuben, Thirty-ninth Regiment Dusseldorf.
6.
Lieutenant von Steuben, Seventy-ninth Regiment Hildesheim.

Should there be others who are not known to the legation, it is understood that the invitation extends to them.

The undersigned, while performing this agreeable duty, and with the request that an early reply may be received by the legation for transmission to the government, avails himself of this occasion to renew to the under secretary of state the assurance of his most distinguished consideration.

H. SIDNEY EVERETT.