Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 4, 1871

No. 349.

Mr. Fish to General Sickles

No. 134.]

Department of State, Washington, December 27, 1870.

Sir: I have this day transmitted to Mr. Moran, at London, in cipher, a telegram, of which the following is the text:

Telegraph and write to Sickles: “Do not understand how far your proposed modification will affect American claims, nor how it will leave the bases communicated on nineteenth. Will await dispatch.”

I am, &c.,

HAMILTON FISH.