Record Data
Source citation
Pierre Soulé, Letter from Pierre Soulé to William L. Marcy, July 18, 1854, Diplomatic Correspondence of The United States, Inter-American Affairs, 1831-1860, Volume XI, Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1939, p. 799.
Recipient (to)
Marcy, William L.
Type
Letter
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Michael Blake
Transcription date
Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
Madrid, July 18, 1854.
SIR: Madrid is at last in full insurrection....
What a moment for taking in our own hands that question of Cuba, which it seems almost impossible we may hereafter be able to adjust in any other way then by force of arms!
I have the honor [etc.].