Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1892

Mr. Lincoln to Mr. Blaine.

Legation of the United States,
London, February 2, 1892. (Received February 12.)

No. 604.]

Sir: Referring to my dispatch numbered 597 of the 23d ultimo, I have the honor to inclose herewith a note which I have received from the Marquis of Salisbury requesting me, in behalf of the Queen, to return Her Majesty’s warmest thanks to the President for his expressions of sympathy on the occasion of the death of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale.

I have, etc.

Robert T. Lincoln.

[Inclosure in No. 604.]

Lord Salisbury to Mr. Lincoln.

Foreign Office, January 30, 1892.

Sir: I am commanded by the Queen, my sovereign, to request you to return to the President of the United States of America Her Majesty’s warmest thanks for the kind expressions of sympathy conveyed through you to Her Majesty, to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, and to the royal family, on the occasion of the great sorrow which has fallen upon them, and upon the whole nation, by the death of His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence and Avondale and Earl of Athlone.

I have, etc.,

Salisbury.