WILHELM I

to the President of Peru, (Mariano Ignacio Prado, 1826-1902, Dictator, 1865-1867, President 1867-1868 & 1876-1879), thanking him for his letter of the 5th August last year that by the free choice of Your fellow citizens... You were appointed President... and assumed this honourable Office on the 2nd of the same month, reciprocating the President's assurance that You will strive to cultivate and ever improve the good relations existing between Germany and the Republic of Peru, and offering his congratulations on Your elevation, signed also by Bernhard Ernst von Bülow (1815-1879, the Danish and German Statesman, plenipotentiary at the Congress of Berlin) as Deputy Foreign Minister, 1 side folio, lithographed heading with MS additions and conjugate blank, Berlin, 10th April