Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Gresham.
Washington, March 21, 1893.
Sir: I have the honor to inform yon that I have received instructions from Her Majesty’s principal secretary of state for foreign affairs to announce to the President that the Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint me her first ambassador to the United States of America.
I am to state that this act is intended as a fresh proof of the desire of the Queen and her Government still further to cement the bond of blood, sympathy, and friendship which should ever unite the two great nations that speak the English tongue, and that Her Majesty trusts that it will be so received and regarded by the President, the Government, and the people of the United States.
I am desired by the Earl of Rosebery to add that it is peculiarly grateful to his lordship to be the means of making this communication.
I beg leave in conclusion to express my deep sense of the honor of being accredited as the first British ambassador to this great and kindred nation.
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