Notes
"The first English translation ... which has come under the editor's notice, was made in 1871 for the United States ministry at Berlin, and ... was printed in ... 'Foreign relations of the United States,' Washington, 1871, p. 383-393. The second, based on the preceding, was sent to the State dep't in 1877, and printed in the volume on foreign relations for that year under 'Germany.' The first has been also reprinted as an appendix to Lowe's 'Life of Bismarck.' The [present] is a revised and ... corrected copy of the last."