Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Gresham.
Washington , April 1, 1893 . (Received April 3.)
Sir: I have had the honor to receive your note of yesterday’s date, in which yon are good enough to announce to me the appointment by the President of the honorable T. F. Bayard, of Delaware, to be ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the United States to the Court of St. James.
In thanking you for that courteous communication, a copy of which I will not fail to transmit to my Government, I beg leave to express not only my gratification at this prompt response to the initiative of my august Sovereign in appointing me Her first ambassador, but also the pleasure with which I have learned that the choice of the President has fallen upon one so highly distinguished and so eminently fitted to discharge the functions of his very important diplomatic post.
I heartily concur with you in the belief that the new step taken in the appointment of ambassadors in London and Washington, respectively, marks an epoch in the growth and perpetuation of the good will which exists between the two countries, and which it will be my greatest aim, as it will doubtless be the desire of Mr. Bayard, to promote.
I have, etc.,