Mitchell recherchat une celebrite publique et scientifique, avec
le seul but de remplir une forme tout-a-fait technique.
"Le soussigne, charge d'affaires des Etats Unis de l'Amerique, saisit
avec empressement cette occasion d'offrir a votre Majeste l'expression
de sa consideration la plus haute et la plus distinguee.
"R.P. FLENIKEN.
"A Sa Majeste FREDERIC VII., Roi de Danemark, Duc de Slesvig et de
Holstein."
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TRANSLATION.
"Legation of the United States of America,}
City of Copenhagen, September 4th, 1848. }
"SIRE: The undersigned has the honor, through your Majesty's minister of
state and chief of the department of foreign affairs, to communicate to
you a letter from a very distinguished citizen of the United States,
together with copies of a correspondence relating to a subject in which
your Majesty, alike distinguished for generous liberality in social and
political affairs as a sovereign, as well as an ardent admirer of
science and of literature, will doubtless feel a lively interest.
"The undersigned is happy to be the medium through which those papers
reach the eye of your Majesty, feeling sensible that their perusal will
furnish occasion to your Majesty to recur with much national pleasure to
the act of one of your illustrious predecessors as a distinguished
patron of science; and this recurrence to the eminent position that
Denmark has attained in the arts and the sciences may perhaps not be the
less pleasurable from the fact that the trophy of science to which the
papers allude was achieved on the very coast where, as far back as the
tenth century, the intrepidity and enterprise of your Majesty's
Scandinavian ancestors first discovered and planted a colony upon the
great western continent.
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