Mr. Lawton to Mr.
Bayard.
Legation of
the United States,
Vienna, February 5, 1889.
(Received February 25.)
No. 115.]
Sir: In my dispatch No. 114, of February 1, 1889, I
had the honor to make known to the Department that on receiving the cable
dispatch expressing the sorrow and condolence of the President and people of
the United States at the death of the Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary I had
communicated it by a note to the imperial and royal ministry
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of foreign affairs and had made a personal visit
to the minister at the same time, as well to secure the more prompt delivery
of the note as to give verbal expression to the feelings of this legation. I
now have the honor to send herein translation of the reply of Count Kalnoky,
dated February 2, 1889.
I am, etc.,
[Inclosure in No.
115—Translation.]
Count Kalnoky to
Mr. Lawton.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Vienna, February 2,
1889.
The undersigned minister of the imperial household and of foreign affairs
has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of note F. O. 54, dated January
31, 1889, in which the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary
of the United States of America, General Alexander R. Lawton, had the
kindness to convey the expression of sympathy which his Government by
telegraph informs him it feels in our sorrow for the decease of His
Imperial Highness the Crown Prince Archduke Rudolph, and to render for
this communication, as well as for the expression of personal sympathy,
the sincerest and warmest thanks of the Imperial and Royal Government,
with the information that the imperial and royal envoy at Washington has
been instructed by telegraph to express to the Secretary of State for
foreign affairs at Washington our deep-felt gratitude for this valuable
proof of sympathy of the American people for our beloved Emperor and for
the people of this monarchy.
The undersigned avails, etc.
