Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1889

Mr. de Claparède to Mr. Bayard.

[Translation.]

Legation of Switzerland,
Washington, November 27, 1888. (Received November 27.)

Mr. Secretary: In pursuance of instructions received from my Government, I have the honor to inform you that Mr. Hertenstein, President of the Swiss Confederation, last night succumbed to the effects of the operation performed on Saturday last.

Begging you, Mr. Secretary, to communicate the intelligence of this sad and painful event to the President of the United States of America,

I avail, etc.,

A. de Claparède.