Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part I

No. 468.
Mr. Coleman to Mr. Bayard.

Legation of the United States,
Berlin, July 16, 1888. (Received July 30.)

No. 639.]

Sir: Recurring to dispatch No. 638, of the 5th instant, from this legation, relating to the resolution of condolence of the House of Representatives on the occasion of the death of Emperor Frederick III, I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy, with translation, of a note, dated the 11th instant, from Count Bismarck, expressing the renewed thanks of His Majesty the reigning Emperor.

I have, etc.,

Chapman Coleman.

[Inclosure in No. 639.—Translation.]

Count Bismarck to Mr. Coleman.

Foreign Office,
Berlin, July 11, 1888.

The undersigned has had the honor to receive the esteemed note of the 5th instant-and its inclosure, a copy of the resolution of sympathy adopted by the House of Representatives of the United States on the occasion of the death of His Majesty the Emperor and King, Frederick, and has not failed to present them to the now reigning Emperor and King.

His majesty was much affected by the tenor of the same, and has been pleased to instruct me to express again to the chargé d’affaires, Mr. Coleman, his thanks for this manifestation, already conveyed through the envoy, Count von Arco.

While the undersigned has the honor to comply with this highest command, he at the same time avails, etc.

H. Bismarck.