Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 1, 1873

No. 193.
Sir Edward Thornton to Mr. Davis.

Washington, July 9, 1873. (Received July 9.)

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that I have just received a telegram from Earl Granville, stating that recent reports from Dr. Kirk, Her Majesty’s consul at Zanzibar, bear testimony to the cordial assistance afforded by the vice-consul of the United States in procuring the signature by his highness the Sultan of Zanzibar of the treaty relating to the slave-trade, and instructing me to thank the Secretary of State of the United States for the valuable co-operation of their agent.

I have much pleasure in informing you of the contents of Lord Granville’s message, and shall feel much obliged to you if you will make Mr. Fish acquainted with them.

I have, &c.,

EDW’D THORNTON.