Diplom visande utnämningen av Nere A. Elfwing till konsul för Liberia i Stockholm 1869.

Diplom, handskrivet på blått papper:" James Grigg Payne // President of the Republic of Liberia // To Nere A. Elfwing // Greeting! //Reposing special trust and confidence in your Integrity, Prudence and Ability, I do appoint you, thesaid Nere A. Elfwing of Stockholm, Sweden, to be Consul General of the Republic of Liberia atStockholm, authorizing you hereby to do and perform all such matters and things as to the said placeand office do appertain, or as may be duly given you in charge hereafter, and the said office tohold during the pleasure of the President of Liberia. In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the Republic of Liberia to be hereto affixed. Given under my hand at the City of // Monrovia, this ninth day of April in the year // of Our Lord,one thousand eight hundred and // sixty nine, and of the Republic the Twenty // Second ". Undertecknat av James S Payne och med ett i papperet pressat sigill med Liberias riksvapen, omskrift "REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA LOVE OF LIBERTY BROUGHT US HERE". Otydlig kontrasignering.Nertill till v. påskrift "Inför Hans Majt Konungen i // Stats Rådet // uppvisadt och exequatur //beviljadt det svenska riksvapnet med omskrift "KONGL. UTRIKES DEPARTEMENTET".