"Le soussigne ne peut terminer cette communication sans exprimer a votre
Excellence (en la priant de porter aussi ses sentiments a la
connaissance de sa Majeste) sa vive appreciation de ce noble et eclatant
acte de justice, si promptement et si genereusement rendu a sa jeune
compatriote par le roi de Danemark, et il saisit avec empressement cette
occasion de renouveler a votre Excellence les assurances de sa
consideration tres distinguee.
"R.P. FLENIKEN.
"A Son Excellence M. LE COMTE DE KNUTH, Ministre d'Etat et Chef du
Departement des Affaires Etrangeres."
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TRANSLATION.
"Legation of the United States,}
Copenhagen, October 7th, 1848. }
"SIR: The undersigned has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your
Excellency's communication of yesterday's date, conveying to him the
gratifying intelligence that His Majesty, from an examination of the
evidence which you obligingly laid before him, tending to establish the
fact of Miss Mitchell's having discovered the telescopic comet of
October, last, has been pleased to consider it quite satisfactory, and
has ordered a medal to be struck for her as a mark of distinction to
which his Majesty deems her entitled, notwithstanding her omission to
comply with the prescribed conditions of Frederic VI., who instituted
the donation.
"The undersigned, therefore, begs to express to you, sir, and through
you to His Majesty, the assurance that this eminent act of liberality
cannot fail to be duly and highly appreciated by the scientific
institutions of his own country, by Miss Mitchell herself, who is the
object of this generous distinction, and by her numerous scientific
friends, as well as by all who feel an interest in successful
astronomical achievements.
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