No. 65.
Mr. Frelinghuysen to Mr. Martinez.
Washington, January 7, 1882.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 28th ultimo, giving me your views as to the present condition of Peru, derived from your latest intelligence. I need not inform you that it has been read with the most lively interest.
I was much gratified yesterday with the assurances which you gave me, in our personal interview, that your government, in the arrest and imprisonment of Calderon, was in no way instigated by an unfriendly feeling towards the United States. If you feel yourself at liberty to renew that assurance in writing I shall be still further and greatly gratified by your doing so. Such a communication, written in the friendly spirit which marked your verbal communications, will tend to promote that friendly feeling which is so desirable among American republics.
Accept, sir, &c.,