Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1881

No. 589.
Señor Elmore to Mr. Blaine.

[Translation.]

Legation of Peru,
Washington , August 29, 1881. (Received August 30.)

Sir: I have had the honor to receive your excellency’s esteemed letter of 27th instant, in which, referring to the communication addressed to your excellency by the minister of foreign relations of Peru, under date of June 15, 1881, and which I had the pleasure to place in your hands on the 26th of the present month, announcing to your excellency the recall of my predecessor, the chargé d’affaires Señor Ignacio Garcia, and my appointment as minister resident of Peru to the Government of the United States, your excellency is so good as to inform me that the critical condition of his excellency the President of the United States at the present time forbids any immediate arrangement for the formal presentation of my credentials; but that it will be agreeable to your excellency, in the name of your government, to enter forthwith into full diplomatic relations with me pending the observance of that formality. To this end you ask me to transmit to you now the office copy of my letter of credence from the President of Peru, leaving to a later date the presentation of the original to his excellency the President of the United States.

I beg to offer to your excellency, Mr. Secretary, my sincere thanks for this proof of the friendly disposition of your excellency’s government, and I herewith have the pleasure to inclose the office copy and a translation of my letter of credence.

I also thank your excellency for the copy of the note of Señor Galvez, which you kindly sent me.

While continuing my most earnest prayers for the recovery of his excellency President Garfield, I have the honor to renew to your excellency the assurances of my highest and most distinguished consideration.

J. F. ELMORE.

[Inclosure in Mr. Elmore’s note of August 29, 1881.—Translation.]

President of Peru to President of the United States.

Francisco Garcia Calderon, Provisional President of the Republic of Peru.

To his Excellency the President of the United States of America:

Sir: My most earnest and constant desire being to cultivate and draw closer the relations of friendship and good harmony which happily exist and are kept up unchangeable between Peru and the United States of America, I hasten to inform your excellency that I have chosen Dr. Don Juan Federico Elmore with the object that he may reside in the United States as the minister resident of Peru.

The intimate knowledge I have of the qualities which distinguished Dr. Don Juan Federico Elmore, and of his zeal for the public service, fully satisfies me as to the manner in which he will fulfill the high duties intrusted to him.

I hope that the person of this minister will be agreeable to your excellency, and that you will please honor him with a kind reception, giving full faith and credit to whatever he may say in the name of Peru, and more especially when expressing to your excellency my desire to maintain the good and friendly relations and the cordial intelligence existing with the Republic of the United States, for whose prosperity and that of your excellency I offer my most sincere wishes.

I beg your excellency to accept the expression of my highest consideration.

Written, signed, sealed, and countersigned by the minister of state in the department of foreign relations, at Magdalena, Lima, on the 14th day of the month of June, in the year 1881.

[l. s.]

F. GARCIA CALDERON.

El ministro de relaciones exteriores,

M. M. GALVEZ.