Frédéric Passy
Budapest, December 21, 1901
Noble and honored Baroness:
The agreeable fact that the Austrian Society of the Friends of Peace, called into existence by your Excellency, and still conducted through the indefatigable energy of your Excellency, can now look back over a ten years’ activity, constrains me to congratulate your Excellency most warmly on this circumstance.
Though there may be many who will be unable to appreciate the endeavors of the society, I can, as far as I am concerned, assure your Excellency that I can estimate at their true value all great and noble ideas, as well as those who labor for the accomplishment of such ideas, and so I follow these endeavors with the warmest interest.
With the highest esteem, I am yours respectfully
Szell, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary
[Telegram.] On the decennial anniversary of your Union I send you my congratulations, and beg to be enrolled as a life member of the Austrian Peace Society, at the same time calling attention to the ideas expressed in my letter of the tenth of December.
Henri Dunant
Vienna, December 30, 1901