[6] After the arrival of the Chilean armored ships Cochrane and Blanco Encalada to Antofagasta, Peru, in naval inferiority, adopted a policy of diplomatic caution and in the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation of 1877 between Chile and Peru, it agreed on the equivalence of commercial rights for citizens and companies from both countries, franchises for the trade of import and export products and resort to arbitration in case of differences.

In the Army, the secret service was nicknamed the "political office" and the link between the chancellery and the armed forces was Rear Admiral Patricio Lynch.

[13] On August 4, 1881, Godoy did not persist in negotiating and asked Patricio Lynch to disarm, in every sense of the word, the García Calderón government and he himself returned to Chile.

[14] To counteract the interventionist maneuvers of the U.S. Secretary of State James G. Blaine and his representative in Lima, Stephen A. Hurlbut, he was sent by the government along with José Abelardo Núñez [es] to North America to clarify through the press the reasons for the extension of the war.

In a report to President Santa María he wrote: 29 September 1882: Since I have known this country, it has been my firm belief that iniquitous, reckless, or simply imprudent international political plans will not prevail in it: that adventurous attempts may arise, and that there will be no shortage of those who support them with energy, with audacity, i even with a certain skill, but that they, whoever their assistants may be, and no matter how highly placed they are in social or political circles, will infallibly crash in the end after a more or less difficult and prolonged struggle, if you will, against the enlightened, upright public opinion, outstandingly endowed with good sense and the spirit of equity that prevails in this country.

[17] In March 1883 he informed the government in Santiago that Secretary of State Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, in view of possible European intervention, had pressured him for Chile to end the war in any way.

[18] Some time later Godoy was Chile's ambassador to Ecuador and Brazil, and in 1886, he became Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Interior of President José Manuel Balmaceda.

He maintained close friendships with Peruvian presidents José Balta, Manuel Pardo and Mariano Ignacio Prado, who received him without prior appointment in their offices by simply notifying their personal secretaries.

[5] Fellow historian Mario Barros van Buren considers him one of the most talented members of the "Generation of 1865" that was promoted by Abdón Cifuentes since 1867 and that would represent Chile during the period of the War of the Pacific: Alberto Blest Gana, Francisco Astaburuaga Cienfuegos, Carlos Walker Martínez, Carlos Morla Vicuña, Marcial Martínez Cuadros, Maximiano Errázuriz Valdivieso, etc.

[20] In March 1889, they appeared before the Chilean justice system to request a perpetual divorce, since his wife was unable to withstand the attacks that he publicly inflicted on her.

This is how this public fact reached the ears of the Chilean President himself at the time, Domingo Santa María, through a letter from Cornelius Ambrose Logan, a U.S. diplomatic official, where he declared Mr. Godoy's private conduct in Washington, D.C. to be "incorrect, and how inconvenient and unhappy the condition of their domestic relations.