Mr. Seward to Mr.
Burlingame
No. 46.]
Department of State, Washington,
November 13, 1863.
Sir: It affords me sincere gratification to be
the medium for communicating to you of a copy of a note of the 27th
ultimo, addressed to me by Count Piper, the chargé d’affaires of his
Majesty the King of Denmark, accredited to this government, expressive
of the grateful sense entertained by his Majesty’s government of the
assistance rendered by you to Colonel Raasloff in his late negotiations
with China.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Anson Burlingame, Esq., &c., &c., &c.
[Translation.]
Count Piper to Mr. Seward
Danish Legation, New York,
October 27, 1863.
Mr. Secretary: The government of his
Majesty the King of Denmark having had the satisfaction to be made
aware of the particularly kind and efficacious manner in which the
minister of the United States at Pekin sustained and seconded
Colonel Raasloff in the negotiation of a treaty concluded this
summer between Denmark and China, I have just received the order and
hasten to become the interpreter to the government of the United
States of the sincere gratitude which the Danish government
entertains for the powerful aid with which the representative of the
United States at Pekin, doubtless with the consent and order of his
government, seconded and so largely contributed to the success of
Colonel Raasloff’s efforts pending those negotiations.
I embrace, with eagerness, this occasion to offer to your excellency
the renewed assurances of my highest consideration.
