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Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 8.25 x 10.25, April 27, 1852. President Fillmore directs the Secretary of State to affix the Seal of the United States to “a full power to negotiate a Convention with the Plenipotentiary of the Free Hanseatic Cities.” Signed neatly at the conclusion by Millard Fillmore. In fine condition, with some light creasing in the margins. The three Hanseatic Cities were Bremen, Lubeck, and Hamburg (in modern Germany) and were free and independent city-states within the Holy Roman Empire. Although independent of each other, in the 19th century they formed a joint trade agreement and served as major trading hubs between the United States and Germany. Fillmore directs here his Secretary of State, Daniel Webster, to negotiate a convention with the Republics to establish direct diplomatic relations. Relations were formalized the following year, in 1853, but were severed in 1868 when they joined the North German Confederation during German Unification. In 1871 they joined the German Empire.
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